poems & essay by LISA BAIRD
2nd printing Nov 2024
originally published Sept 2024

32 pp., thread bound, 5.25"x 8.25"
ISBN # 978-1-928066-99-6
in an edition of 20 unnumbered copies
cover of St. Armand Canal paper
flyleaf of Thai Mango Kozo paper

edited by: Jeanann Verlee

Persephone’s Crickets is a series of poems (with a concluding essay) in conversation with the Persephone myth, upending the traditional narrative to imagine increased agency for Persephone in the face of this much-told tale of abduction and captivity.

Lisa Baird is a writer and community acupuncturist. Her first poetry collection, Winter’s Cold Girls, was shortlisted for the 2020 Relit Award for poetry. Her second full-length poetry collection, When Whales Went Back to the Water, is forthcoming from University of Alberta Press in 2025. Find her at www.lisabaird.ca.

Read Tom Cull's review of Persephone’s Crickets for The Fiddlehead’s “Stop! Look! Listen!” reading recommendation page here:
https://thefiddlehead.ca