Ep. 4: KYLA JAMIESON on Love as a Verb
In episode 4, Alessandra sits down with Kyla Jamieson to discuss poetry, disability, and love as a verb. The pair speak about water a site of awe and fear, and contemplate how illness or injury might create intimacy with the earth. They dive into questions of love, joy and community care—and Kyla also reads from her acclaimed poetry collection BODY COUNT. “I truly feel like language is a miracle,” Kyra shares, “and poetry is a celebration of that miracle. What poets do is always rooted in love, because that love of language is always present.”
About KYLA JAMIESON:
Kyla Jamieson is a disabled poet who lives with a dynamic and invisible disability resulting from a brain injury. Her first book, Body Count, was a CBC Best Poetry Book of the Year in 2020 and was shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Memorial Award. Born and raised in Squamish and North Vancouver, Kyla now lives and relies on the traditional unceded territories of the Squamish, Musqueam, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations, where she dreams of systemic change, care-full futures, and disabled joy.
