KINGSTON POETRY READING: Miranda Pearson -Rail

Cafe Lokal, 2610 W 4th Ave, Vancouver, BC
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Miranda Pearson will read from her new poetry collection, Rail, at Novel Idea in Kingston. This is a joint reading with Sharon Berg and Elizabeth Greene.

ABOUT THE COLLECTION

In Rail Miranda Pearson considers family ties and threads between adult and child, cross-pollinating and subverting credos from Bloomsbury to Brexit, Whitechapel to West Vancouver, the Bible to punk. The long poem "Abacus" explores dyscalculia and ways that numbers and their associations can be a rich source of memory. It also delves into resulting anxieties - navigations and compensations made in response to a learning difference. Through imagery heavily influenced by visual art, other poems in Rail focus on geological elements: how parts fit and dislodge, erode and compress. Ceramics and gemstones, ice and rock are fault lines and stepping stones that act as envoys between the human and the natural world. A tension exists here between art and nature, between art objects and the violent history of colonial curation. Rail tracks the cascade of this duality.

Miranda Pearson is a poet and the author of four previous collections, including Harbour and The Fire Extinguisher. Originally from Kent, England, she lives in Vancouver.