2014 Robert Kroetsch Award For Innovative Poetry Winner

How does a place get in your bones? How do you become the bones of a place? Hidden City unearths memories that don’t want to be found.

A poem cycle that speaks through disembodied voices—the parts of ourselves we don’t want to acknowledge, but which refuse to be silenced—Hidden City’s post-lyrical form opens a secret door to the experience of nostalgia for a traumatic past.

“This is a crackling, energetic, desperate suite of poems.”—Ken Babstock

Jeremy Stewart grew up in Prince George, BC, a place as remarkable for its flourishing poetry community as for its industrial grit. He is a graduate student of English Literature at the University of Northern British Columbia and a past winner of the Barry McKinnon Chapbook Prize. The manuscript of (flood
basement was shortlisted for the 2008 Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry.

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• Winner, Robert Kroetsch Award For Innovative Poetry

“This is a crackling, energetic, desperate suite of poems. Weird and worrying.”—Ken Babstock

Ken Babstock