Thin Spells by Kristina Diprose visual This is an angular book

This is an angular book of linguistic inventiveness and substance

turning everything over from the world’s tallest mountains to the smallest pebble on the beach

McGill Law & Gender Studies student

mentee of Alexander Hutchison and Rachel Long

Thin Spells by Kristina Diprose visual This is an angular bookThin Spells is a startling collection, in which the present is powerfully haunted by the ecological past. The poems are shot through with teeth, fur and feathers: from 'Cat Calling Card', charged with the energy of the hunt, to the snarling heart of 'Monokoke,' to the unsettling transformation of 'On Mother's Day' where the speaker slips 'into otter skin.' The poems consistently blur the unstable line between the animal and human and celebrate