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Raw, tender, always unsparing, Wilson gives us a woman growing even as her children grow, revealing to her more of the world, dissipating the violence of the self. Total easement is not granted—just, perhaps, a gentler reckoning with existence. “This is one of the most powerful gathering of poems I’ve read in years…. Our study is to understand that a new voice has strode across the field, and made its place.” — Brian Brett, author of To Your Scattered Bodies Go (2011 CBC poetry prize) and Uproar’s Your Only Music (Globe & Mail Book of the Year)
At Home with Disquiet takes us on a woman’s progress through childhood, early womanhood, marriage, childbirth, divorce, death, new love. Raw, tender, always unsparing, Erin Wilson gives us a mother growing even as her children grow, revealing to her more of the world, dissipating the violence of the self. Total easement is not granted—just, perhaps, a gentler reckoning with existence.
“Compelling, urgent, lean, Erin Wilson’s poems read as though Emily Dickinson’s secret love child ran off to Canada and mated with a wolf.” — Roger Mitchell, The Hamilton Stone
“…Wilson is not just a poet of the Canadian countryside, but one deeply rooted in many poetic and artistic traditions. At Home with Disquiet is an excellent addition to Circling Rivers’ growing collection.” — Bryan Monte, Amsterdam Quarterly | full review
PRAISE
…Our study is to understand that a new voice has strode across the field, and made its place. Disquiet is solid, mysterious, yet clear as it unfolds in the meadow of her life with children and lover floating past. — Brian Brett, The Colour of Bones in a Stream, To Your Scattered Bodies Go (2011 CBC poetry prize) and Uproar’s Your Only Music (Globe & Mail Book of the Year)
…Bursting with abundance and beauty…. This is a book of dualities, of not only odes but laments, for the hand that generously gives is also the hand that harrows.… This book will smolder inside you long after you close its pages. — Francesca Bell, Bright Stain and A Love That Hovers Like a Bedeviling Mosquito
In At Home with Disquiet, Wilson gives to us a rich poetic narrative, the sensual and delicate moments of life, as well as the small but profound details of hunger, desire, and connection.… Wilson takes us through growing pains in all stages of life and returns us to the bittersweet sense of home, or as she puts it, “taking the portal directly into being (which ends way past sorrow), / being the willing slave to marvel.” — Abbie Copeland, Dying Dahlia
I would call At Home with Disquiet a triumph—however, this poetry grants no illusion of conquering or overcoming or divining the essence of whatever it is that has shaped it. With the insight and grace of a resolute and keenly observant desert dweller, Wilson is a Desert Mother of Kathleen Norris’ plains, the kind who “leans into herself like tilted kindling… The mother burns.” — Nina Murray, author of Minimize Considered and Alcestis in the Underworld
from AT HOME WITH DISQUIET
Pulling Carrots, Cabbage, Turnips, Late Fall
How hard must a mother be,
how tough, how enduring,
that the world asks her
to be the soft place,
knowing
she’s only the soil
from which
food is plucked.
about ERIN WILSON
The daughter of a trapper and a cook, step-daughter to a butcher, Erin Wilson grew up in a rural community on Manitoulin Island, Canada. Her work has appeared in literary journals including The Literary Review of Canada, Natural Bridge, Poetry Ireland Review and The Hamilton Stone Review. In 2019, her poetry was long-listed for Canada’s prestigious CBC Literary Prize. At Home with Disquiet is her first book. Her Pushcart Prize-winning poem “Blue” is the title work of her second collection, BLUE. To find out more about Erin, visit Erin Wilson Poems & Miscellany | Interview with Erin Wilson on her poems long-listed for the CBC Poetry Prize | CBC podcast
