prose poems by EVE JOSEPH
fourth printing Nov 2024
originally published Oct 2023
28 pp., thread bound, 4.75"x 8.5"
ISBN # 978-1-998521-02-9
in an edition of 12 unnumbered copies
cover of St. Armand Canal paper
flyleaf of Japanese Obonai Feather paper

cover artwork: Jill Kuhn
edited by: Annick MacAskill

Eve Joseph lives and writes on the unceded traditional territories of the Lekwungen peoples. Her first two books of poetry, The Startled Heart (Oolichan, 2004) and The Secret Signature of Things (Brick, 2010), were both nominated for the Dorothy Livesay Award. Her non-fiction book, In the Slender Margin, was published by HarperCollins in 2014 and won the Hubert Evans award for nonfiction. Her most recent book of poetry, Quarrels (Anvil, 2018), was nominated for the Dorothy Livesay Prize and the ReLit Award, and won the 2019 Griffin Poetry Prize.

Author photo: Patrick Friesen

Read Catherine Owen’s review of Distractions for The BC Review here:
https://thebcreview.ca