The Desert and The Flood

Proud to announce The Desert and The Flood, new poetry from Amanda Besserer, is now available for pre-order via Horsebroke Press.

The Desert and The Flood is the first collection of poetry from Amanda Besserer in nearly a decade. After a long hiatus, Amanda has made re-emerged with a voice both romantic and grounded. Her poems tour the wreckage of lunar accidents, hop Charybdis, and dangle their feet from the rings of Saturn. Most of all, this is the poetry of a survivor; of someone who has learned when to purr—and when to roar.

Amanda will be reading at the Factory Reading Series in Ottawa on Friday June 17 at the Carleton Tavern (FB link). The book will be available there and at the Ottawa Small Press Fair the next day, Saturday June 18, at the Jack Purcell Centre (FB link). Pre-orders via Etsy will ship on June 17.

Want a taste of Amanda’s work? Visit and follow Revolution From My Bed.

Curglaff

Come out Wednesday night to Raw Sugar Cafe to help raise money for VERSeFEST, Ottawa’s International Poetry Festival. I’ll be joined by fellow former In/Words editors Amanda Besserer, Dave Currie, Jenna Jarvis and Mark Sokolowski, as well as musician Kaleigh Watts. Show starts at seven pm and it’s five bucks at the door. If I haven’t seen ya in a year I’ll buy a beer.