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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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THE QUEEN BEE. My dear friend Grace Jordan, BEEKEEPER, Melissa’s priestess, and playwright will be opening the Salt Spring Island book launch this Saturday of #reoriginofspecies with a bee blessing. We will be gathering on her bee sanctuary land following the reading, for cake and honey 🍯 & a bonfire. All are welcome. 6-8 @saltspringlibrary // later at Stonewell Farm, home of Fools for Love Thestre.
🐝 Salt Spring, I’m coming home this weekend for the first official launch of the book! Very happy this is a free, accessible, community event. Join us @saltspringlibrary , bring your kiddos & your dear ones. Hosted by my incredible mentor Robert Birch, with a reading from @alybarefootdaughtercoy, and a few more surprises in store. Books will be in hand! . . . #reoriginofspecies #poetry #bees #witchesofinstagram #booklaunch #indiepublishing #debut #saltspringisland
To be honest, I’ve always felt half-hawk. This picture compliments of stopping by an old roadside church and climbing into the high grasses of a wet field. I haven’t seen the tress change colour like this in FIVE YEARS and it takes my breath away.
🐝 This bee 🐝 was just there, on the tablecloth in front of me, in the dinning room, at a big family dinner. It must have just passed, sacred little winged one. 🙏
🐝 bzz bzz. Upcoming readings from Re-Origin of Species. There will be honey tastings, special guests, and lots of poems. 🐝
Posted @withrepost • @bookhug_press Happy Publication Day to Re-Origin of Species by @alessandrastorm. From hybrid bodies to shifting landscapes, Re-Origin of Species blurs the lines of the real. These poems journey through illness and altered states to position disability and madness as evolutionary traits; skilled adaptations aligned with ecological change. A lyric contemplation of our relationship to the environment, this book looks at the interdependence of species. Weaving personal narratives with a study of the insect kingdom, it draws parallels between human illness, climate change, and the state of peril in the natural world. Edited for the press by Karen Solie and designed by Gareth Lind, this highly anticipated debut from Naccarato, winner of the Bronwen Wallace Award and CBC Poetry Prize, is available now! #availablenow #poetry #debutbook #bees #reoriginofspecies #publicationday #bookbirthday #mustread cc: @writerstrust @cbcbooks

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