How can the poetic imagination help us to reimagine our relationship to the environment and our natural heritage? Words is pleased to present a poetry reading by acclaimed poets Karen Houle, Tom Cull, and David Huebert, and a conversation with our host and moderator Kevin Heslop.

During a time of climate emergency, we have invited three poets to explore how their writing practice is inspired by their engagement with the natural world. Tom Cull's new book of poetry, Bad Animals, foregrounds his relationship to the Thames River, or Deshkan Ziibiing, as a site of regional identity, environmental awareness, Indigenous history, and creativity. In her new book, Karen Houle employs the wiliest tool she knows—poetry—to contemplate the complexities of the Grand River watershed in southern Ontario, stretching our notions of what can be known about a river. David Huebert’s Humanimus presents a world of soiled nature, of compromised ecology, of toxic transcendence.

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