Lot

InLot, award-winning poet and essayist Sarah de Leeuw returns to the landscape of her early girlhood to consider the racial complexities of colonial violence in those spaces. Following loosely as a companion toSkeena(Caitlin Press, 2015),Lotis written entirely of couplets, mirroring the two main islands of Haida Gwaii, and draws on lyric traditions, assemblage, and investigative poetry techniques to re-imagine geological and anthropological data, re-read colonial documents, and interrogate the role of language in centering stories of white supremacy on and about the islands.

Written in a time of ostensible Truth and Reconciliation in lands now called Canada, a time when the Government of British Columbia has declared support for the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples but continues to arrest Indigenous peoples in their homes and on unceded lands,Lotdraws a firm, and yet poetic, line between historic and present-day white-Euro-colonial violence. Through structure, form, and sound, the poems inLotinsist on the possibilities of poetry to create better worlds, to utter something anew. (From Caitlin Press)

• Writing is political for Sarah de Leeuw
• 22 books by past CBC Literary Prizes winners and finalists that came out in 2022

Sarah de Leeuw is a poet and writer who melds social criticism with literary nonfiction. Her bookWhere It Hurts, a collection of personal essays, was a finalist for the 2017Governor General's Literary Award for nonfiction.

De Leeuwwon the 2008 CBC Creative Nonfiction Prizeand came in second in 2009.