“This small book shows what people can do when they come with openness and energy to listen to one another, to engage with their whole being in the rich ecosystem that is Wintergreen.”
— Lorna Crozier
Join Lorna Crozier and fourteen other poets as they read from the newest chapbook published by Wintergreen Studios Press, Book of Night.
Book of Night is a chapbook of poetry crafted in the spring of 2023 following one of Lorna Crozier’s poetry writing retreats. The work of the poets—Susan Wismer, Callista Markotich, Susan Bond, Nora Connidis Boydell, Liz Huntly, M.A. Thompson, Sandra Campbell , Kimberly Peterson, Mary Corkery, Luanne Gauvreau, Barbara E. Hunt, Kerrie Penney, Gillian McKee, and Lynda MacGibbon—is featured in this collection. Lorna edited the work, with the editorial and administrative assistance of Rena Upitis.
“Always a good place to start a book of poetry is with the wisdom of the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda: “On our earth, before writing, before the printing press was invented, poetry flourished. That is why we know that poetry is like bread; it should be shared by all, by scholars and by peasants, by all our vast, incredible, extraordinary family of humanity.”
Neruda would have been welcome at Wintergreen this last June. He would have fit in with the “extraordinary family of humanity” that came together to break bread at the table and to celebrate and honour poetry. We passed poems around our group of fifteen seekers of the word, we broke off chunks and chewed. We tasted the salt and flour of each other’s creations.”
— Lorna Crozier, from the introduction to Book of Night
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