English authors and their biography of alberta

Leisure reading is a great way to unplug, relax, and support artists in the process. While there’s a great and beautiful legacy of Canadian literature from the twentieth century that many of us are familiar with — I know you all watched The Handmaid’s Tale — there are also so many talented writers in Canada that you may not know about, many of them here in Alberta.

1) Billy-Ray Belcourt

Belcourt’s first book, This Wound Is A World, won the Griffin Poetry Prize (kind of like the Oscars of Canadian poetry), and for good reason.

English authors and their biography of alberta

His work is accessible in its straightforward language, without sacrificing depth or beauty. He explores themes of queerness, Indigeneity, decolonization, and relationships in his raw, visceral poems. His upcoming collection, NDN Coping Mechanisms: Notes From The Field, will adopt an “anthropological” view of Indigenous life in Canada.

The book is at once tongue-in-cheek and completely serious, and his work should be required reading for Canadians.&