This Radiant Life

In this stunning long poem, Chantal Neveu draws from the lexicons of science, art, revolution, and corporeal movement to forge intense and extended rhythms that invoke the elements and spaces making up our world. This is poetry capable of holding life and death, solidarity, and love. Renewal. Breathing.

In its brevity and persistence,This Radiant Lifeis a material call for action: it asks us to let go, even just a little bit, of our individuality in favour of mutuality, to arrive separately yet in unison at a radiance in which all living beings can thrive. (From Book*Hug Press)

This Radiant Lifeis onthe shortlist for the 2021 Governor General's Literary Award for translation. The winners will be announced on Nov. 17, 2021.

Chantal Neveu is a poet and multidisciplinary artist from Montreal. Her other poetry collections available in English includeCot andmentale.

Erin Mour is a translator and poet from Calgary, who now lives in Montreal. Her own poetry collections includeThe Unmemntioable,Kapusta,The Elements andFurious,which won the 1988 Governor General's Literary Award for poetry.

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