The Debt

Set against the backdrop of a post-moratorium St. John's, Newfoundland,The Debtexplores tensions between tradition and innovation, and between past and present in a province unmoored by loss and grief.The Debtis about development and change, idleness and activism, ecological stewardship, feminism, motherhood, the personal and the political. It is also about resistance against the encroaching forces of greed and capitalism, even against the accumulated notions of the self. The poems are an argument for community and connection in an age increasingly associated with isolation of the individual.The Debtexplores the dues we all owe: to nature, to those who came before us, and to one another. (From Biblioasis)