 [ Large Image ] | The Work Bren Simmers 2024 / Canadian Poetry / $23.95 9781554472666 / Trade paper / 80 pp The poems in The Work engage with the work of love and loss and the hope that we might somehow learn to carry our portion of grief. Simmers writes of churning in an accumulation of losses—the sudden death of her father, the descent of her mother into dementia, her sister-in-law’s terminal illness—and of the work of slowly making wholeness out of brokenness. Her writing fosters a vulnerability and wit that sidestep easier tropes, a reminder that healing often comes through saying “Hello” and “Yes”; a realization that “all this noticing / was love.” To purchase this title: Add it to your cart | Other Books by this Author |  | If, When Bren Simmers 2021 / Canadian Poetry / $19.95 CAN 9781554472277 / Trade paper / 64 pp |  | Pivot Point Bren Simmers 2019 / Memoir/Women, Canadian Poetry / $24.95 CAN 9781554472000 / Trade paper / 112 pp |
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