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Writing for Rewilding

by alessandranaccarato on March 26, 2016November 3, 2017

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Writing for Rewilding
Re-Origin of Species (Book*hug, October 2019)
Re-Origin of Species (Book*hug, October 2019)
Performing at the launch of Lishai's Graphic Novel "Why Birds & Wolves Don't Trade Stones" - Toronto, ON
Performing at the launch of Lishai’s Graphic Novel “Why Birds & Wolves Don’t Trade Stones” – Toronto, ON
Image captured during the 2012 National Poetry Slam in Charlotte, North Carolina, as coach of Toronto Poetry Slam's award winning team.
Image captured during the 2012 National Poetry Slam in Charlotte, North Carolina, as coach of Toronto Poetry Slam’s award winning team.

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Alessandra Naccarato is the recipient of the 2015 RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers and the winner of the 2017 CBC Poetry Prize. Currently based in Toronto, she holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia, and has toured nationally and internationally as a spoken word artist. Her debut poetry collection, Re-Origin of Species (Book*hug, 2019) combines personal narrative and natural study to tell a story of adaptation and evolution, and was featured in Fall Previews by CBC Books, 49th Parallel, and the Globe and Mail.

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In deep thoughts of the anthropocene, as I follow the hoof prints of wild boar through the dry barrancos, old water systems, and eroded banks of this beautiful place. They always lead to water. Small pools of good, cold water. And here I am in front of a blossoming almond tree, that is covered in lichen. Smiling, even as I think and pray constantly, constantly, about what is happening back home. 🙏
Full Moon 🌕 Full Emotions in swing, let me tell you.
O fog, how I love thee 💧
I’m in the desert at an Artist Residency in Andalusia, Spain for the next three weeks, working on my essay collection IMMINENT DOMAINS. It’s 17 degrees, we’re on a working permaculture farm that is carbon neutral and restoring the old water systems here. All the artists are working on environmental projects and they are stunning. * There is complexity in travelling this far to visit family and spend time here. Reaching towards nature can push it so much further away. I lean into the paradox. I speak to every drop of water, try to make this time count, hope the words I write here can carry forward in a way that holds worth. * Blessed Imbolc, a good day to remember water, a good day to remember the well.
What is this even? Please guess. 🌙
Sunday mass today was very gothic. 🙏

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