“Naccarato’s poetry interrogates the space where the personal meets the wild”
Jury Citation for the RBC Bronwen Wallace Prize
Join us on the Imminent Domains Podcast, beginning October 31st, as we explore ecological grief, interdependence, and kinship in the so-called Anthropocene. In bi-weekly episodes, Alessandra interviews artists, herbalists, ritualist and poets, diving deep into their unique perspectives on our changing world. An expansion of “Imminent Domains: Reckoning with the Anthropocene," the podcast will align natural cycles, and run from Samhain (Oct 31) to Winter Solstice, appearing every full and new moon.
Imminent Domains: Conversations at the Crossroads
About Alessandra
Alessandra Naccarato is the award-winning author of the new essay collection Imminent Domains: Reckoning with the Anthropocene (Book*hug Press, 2022), and the poetry collection Re-Origin of Species (Book*hug Press, 2019). The recipient of 2015 RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers, and the 2017 CBC Poetry Prize, she holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia and a graduate degree in Community Economic Development from Concordia University. Her debut poetry collection, Re-Origin of Species, was awarded the AICW Bressani Literary Prize for Poetry, shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, longlisted for the Pat Lowther Memorial Award, and named a Best Book of 2019 by CBC Books.
Imminent Domains: Reckoning with the Anthropocene
Arranged by five central elements of survival—earth, fire, water, air and spirit—these essays refute linearity, just as nature does.
“Imminent Domains is a beautiful feat of artistry and truth-saying.”
—Kyo Maclear, author of Birds Art Life
“There is great vulnerability here and also the most potent learning for how to reckon with the simultaneous truths of love and damage. Naccarato holds on, and does not let go, even where the pain is deepest.”
—Angélique Lalonde, author of Glorious Frazzled Beings
“Thoroughly researched and superbly crafted, Imminent Domains offers us something even more precious than information, or a call-to-arms. It offers recognition, friendship, and the possibility of arriving—across the distance and loneliness introduced by a mounting sense of isolation, loss, and collective despair—a true connection.”
—Johanna Skibsrud, author of The Nothing That Is
Re-Origin of Species
From hybrid bodies to shifting landscapes, Re-Origin of Species blurs the lines of the real.
"In this debut collection of startling beauty, Alessandra Naccarato weaves together the mythological and mundane, the ephemeral and the eternal, into a luminous tapestry of lyric and narrative. Naccarato's shimmering threads illuminate the connections that bind together every living thing on every level of being—from the interpersonal, to the political, to the spiritual. This is exquisite, playful, intentional poetry—and it just might be medicine for us all."
—Kai Cheng Thom, author of I HOPE WE CHOOSE LOVE: A Trans Girl's Notes From the End of the World
"What a hive of a book - these poems are so urgent, gorgeous, and necessary. Re-Origin of Species is a siren's call and warning siren all at once."
—Leah Horlick, author of For Your Own Good