"Crossing" is a long poem which unfolds (literally, in a handmade accordian book) as a sailing passage from Mexico to the Marquesas. It is a meditation on memory, fate, agency, wind, sea, and stars. Alison Watt's poetry has appeared in many journals including, Prairie Fire, Event, Sub-terrain, and Arc. She is also a painter who works and teaches out of her studio on Protection Island, near Nanaimo. Her first book, The Last Island — a Naturalist's Sojourn on Triangle Island, won the Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-fiction. Her book of poetry, Circadia, came out with Pedlar Press in 2005. She has a novel "Dazzle Patterns" coming out with Freehand Press next year.
=0D=0A=Both her painting and her writing reflect her background as a biologist and her ongoing preoccupation with the aesthetics and intimacies of the natural world.
=0D=0A=You can find out more about her work at www.alisonwatt.ca
=0D=0A=Here is the chapbook: Have a look at the original artwork, the beautiful design, the handmade papers … http://leafpress.ca/Alison%20Watt/Alison-Watt.htm
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