This Week’s One Minute Poem! Jennifer Zilm reads “The Year in Books”
In this week’s One Minute Poem, Jennifer Zilm reads “The Year in Books” from The Missing Field (Guernica Editions, 2018).
You can find Jennifer’s poem on our YouTube channel, as well as on all of our social media platforms.
By kind permission of the poet and Guernica Editions.
Jennifer Zilm is a Canadian poet. Her first book, Waiting Room (2016), was a finalist for the Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry, and has been described as making a “valuable contribution to the documentary tradition in Canadian poetry.” Her second book, The Missing Field (2018), was a finalist for the Pat Lowther Award. The Malahat Review praised its poems “centred on the intellectual landscapes of documents and ephemera” for being “endlessly intricate and beautiful.”
Born and raised in Saskatchewan, Joanne Epp has published poetry in literary journals including The New Quarterly, The Antigonish Review, and CV2. Her chapbook, Crossings, was released in 2012. Eigenheim is her first full-length poetry collection. Married with two sons, she spent several years in Ontario and now makes her home in Winnipeg.