Dislocations

A former pianist, Karen Enns is now a writer and teacher. Her first book, That Other Beauty was shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Award, and her second, Ordinary Hours was shortlisted for the City of Victoria Butler Book Prize. She lives in Victoria, British Columbia.

i Tanner Ridge Clover Point Lineage Garden Party East of Here ii A Message Ten Dislocations iii The Pause Place of the Steelhead Witness Middens, Gordon Head Plateau Island View Beach Geese iv Past Life The Focus Not Exactly Dawn Night Sounds Heidi, First Snow On This Day In Dream: Appearances Transplanting a Rose during the Plague Three Poems for 2021 The Private Lives of Geese Give Me Your Word v In the Parking Lot This Side of the Hedge Questions for a Muse Piano Masterclass: Twenty-one Etudes Living with Poplars A Theory of Nostalgia Variations Ordinary Early January Terce Almost Acknowledgements

"The world Karen Enns gives us is larger than we know, revealing a spaciousness we imagined gone. Hers is a resonant, fearless voice." Anne Simpson Praise for Cloud Physics : "Personal and remote, cool and exacting, mysteriously exciting, like a top skier these poems cut their own tracks." Gary Snyder "There is a sense, in this book, of something loosedof a fine mind taking in the world and giving back to us something we didn't know we knew." Eve Joseph