Monica Kidd

Monica Kidd is the author of six previous literary books, most recently the poetry collection The Year of Our Beautiful Exile (2015). As well as writing, she has worked as a seabird biologist and as a reporter for CBC Radio. She lives in Calgary, Alberta, where she is a family physician, a fledgling letterpress printer and co-publisher of Pedlar Press.



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Handfuls of Bone
Monica Kidd

2012 / Poetry / $19.95
9781554471140 / Trade paper / 80 pp


Monica Kidd’s Handfuls of Bone takes the reader to the end of the road and back, to outports both literal and figurative, to consider how it is that things somehow hold together. The poems, primarily short, narrative in form and lyric in spirit, are driven by distilled observation and concern themselves with the elemental. These truths find their expression in images of fish drying on Newfoundland clotheslines, of the velvety breath of a newborn baby, of a family’s grief following a sudden death, of Amelia Earhart’s ambition and apprehension, and of motherhood through thick and thin. In confronting uncomfortable moments of loss, want, illness, uncertainty and conflict, Kidd holds a level gaze, avoiding sentimentality and nostalgia. Kidd’s is a poetic which embodies the twin skills of her physician’s training—cool-headed and unblinking observation-based diagnosis combined with compassion, empathy and humanity.



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Other Books by this Author

Chance Encounters with Wild Animals
Monica Kidd

2019 / Canadian Poetry / $21.95 CAN
9781554471973 / Trade paper / 96 pp
The Year of Our Beautiful Exile
Monica Kidd

2015 / Poetry / $19.95 CAN
9781554471430 / Trade paper / 80 pp
Actualities
Monica Kidd

2007 / Poetry / $16.95 CAN
9781554470419 / Trade paper / 64 pp

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