Arborophobia

Nancy Holmes is an award-winning poet and editor, and Associate Professor in the Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies at UBC Okanagan. She also collaborates on eco art projects both locally and internationally.

“Nancy Holmes’ fluent poetic language, her clear intelligence, her deep seriousness, her playfulness, her fierceness, her elegance—all are here. Arborophobia cannot be viewed as anything less than a necessary work, and like all superb books of poetry, it’s a trove of imaginative insight, a collection to keep close at hand.” Russell Thornton, author of Answer to Blue

• I Orb2 The Tribes of Grass3 The Milk Chute, an Ode6 Spring Shave7 Lunolio10 Anemone in Cyprus12 Saint Lucy13 NewbornII Arborophobia16 Ponderosa Pine16 I. Gotcha24 II. QualmsIII Stain32 Early Spring Elegy33 Mother Julian Imagines One Drop of Christ’s BloodAs the Scale of a Herring34 Being Upright36 The Time Being48 Saint Veronica49 WTF—The Anthropocene?50 The Animals in That Backyard52 Before the Flood54 Dementia, the Queen56 Meat57 Pitted58 Saint UrsulaIV Julian60 A Cloth in the Wind, or Being with Julian of NorwichContentsV Path76 Saint Cainnech77 Ways and Means78 How I Came Back to the Morning80 The Way We Are Made Of81 Paths Taken85 Notes87 Acknowledgements"