undercurrent Alex Leslie The Big Melt is a

The Big Melt is a debut poetry collection rooted in nehiyaw thought and urban millennial life events

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Lesley-Anne Bourne (Charlottetown

What follows provides a moving exploration of the importance of sharing and kinship with all other living things

undercurrent Alex Leslie The Big Melt is aDescription The water belongs to itself. undercurrent reflects on the power and sacredness of waterlargely underappreciated by too manywhether it be in the form of ocean currents, the headwaters of the Fraser River or fluids in the womb. Exploring a variety of poetic forms, anecdote, allusion and visual elements, this collection reminds humanity that we are water bodies, and we need and deserve better ways of honouring this. Poet Rita Wong approaches