Speech Dries Here on the Tongue Non-Fiction his first collection of nonfiction

his first collection of nonfiction

their relationships and the land beneath their feet

so limited

for which we won the Governor General’s Award for Poetry in 1938

the two books collected here

Speech Dries Here on the Tongue Non-Fiction his first collection of nonfictionSpeech Dries Here on the Tongue is an anthology of poetry by Canadian authors exploring the relationship between environmental collapse and mental health. This threat of environmental collapse has brought with it a sense of impending annihilation and has contributed to the current mental health crisis, made crueller by a global pandemic that highlighted our fragile nature. These are poems by writers who have used their words to both articulate and