In Some Other Epic Battles, Rhonda Douglas invites us to reckon with personal and family history, with loss, with broken relationships, with connection and intimacy, with desire and lust. This collection is a rich gathering of potent emotional, psychological, and deeply sensual, physical themes. With each subject - from the all-to-real loss of a brother to the anticipated loss of a lover, grief over how the world processed the pandemic or delight in the opening of new love - Douglas offers us poems that crack apart our sense of self and the self-made world.

Rhonda Douglas is the author of Some Days I Think I Know Things: The Cassandra Poems (Signature Editions, 2008) and the short fiction collection Welcome to the Circus (Freehand Books, 2015). She is a graduate of the UBC MFA in Creative Writing Program. You can find her online at shallicompare.com and on Twitter: @shallicompare. She splits her time between Ottawa and the Maple Leaf Lounge.

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"There are poems to marvel at, savour, and read over and over again." - Susan Musgrave. "And she is writing taut poems that remind us how beautiful the strings sound when properly plucked, how sour when someone is just carelessly strumming." - Michael Dennis "What do we do when we live the indescribable? At the least, at the most - as Douglas does so well - observe." - Marilyn Bowering. "Playful, imaginative and self-assured." - The Toronto Star. "[Stories] which bubble with originality and daring." - Publishers Weekly