Kim Trainor is a Canadian poet. Trainor was the recipient of the Fiddlehead's 2019 Ralph Gustafson Prize and

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's 2013 Long Poem Prize. Trainor's work is particularly concerned with grief and memory. Her first book ''Karyotype'' was published by Brick Books in 2015.

George Elliot Clarke George Elliott Clarke, (born February 12, 1960) is a Canadian poet, playwright and literary critic who served as the Poet Laureate of Toronto from 2012 to 2015 and as the 2016–2017 Canadian Parliamentary Poet Laureate. His work is known larg ...

described the book as a "recollection of the organized violence that is war and/or tyranny" and noted that the book's focus on remembrance placed her in the lineage of World War One poet

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. Trainor's second book ''Ledi'' was published by

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. Focusing on the controversial excavation of the

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, the book continues the poet's elegiac themes, with a focus on the Iron Age horsewoman's role in society. The book was a finalist for the 2019

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presented by the

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. Her most recent work has focused on ecological grief and resilience. ''A thin fire runs through me'' will appear with icehouse poetry ( Gooselane Editions) in 2023. ''A blueprint for survival'' will appear with

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in Spring 2024.

Bibliography

* Trainor, Kim. ''A blueprint for survival'' (2024
Guernica Editions
2024 * Trainor, Kim. ''A thin fire runs through me'' (2023) icehouse poetry /

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2023 * Trainor, Kim. ''Ledi'' (2018)

* Trainor, Kim. ''Karyotype'' (2015
Brick Books
* Trainor, Kim. “Seed 1: Shelter,” “Paper Birch,” and “North Road.” Anthologized in ''Fire Season II,'' Fall 2022 * Trainor, Kim. “Seed 11: Pacific Salmon (Oncorhynchus).” ''Dark Mountain'', Issue 21, Spring 2022. * Trainor, Kim. “Trickster, Scavenger, Discoverer of Light: Seed 12, Common Raven; Seed 13, Silene Steonphylla, Svalbard Seedvault; Seed 14: XR/Getting Deeper.” ''The Journal of Wild Culture''. Spring 2022. * Trainor, Kim. “An Excerpt from “Seeds”: “Seed 8, ''Elysia chlorotica''” and “Seed 19, Gaia”. ''Ecozon@''. Vol. 12, No.2. ''Eco-Georgic: From Antiquity to Anthropocene.'' 28 October 2021. * Trainor, Kim. “Desolation.” ''Deep Wild Journal: Writing From the Backcountry''. (US). Issue 3. June 2021. * Trainor, Kim. Excerpt from “Seeds:” “Seed 5. Tiny house, ''caracol'', snail + Seed 19. SARS-CoV-2.” ''Ecocene: Cappadocia Journal of Environmental Humanities.'' (Turkey). Volume 1, Issue 2. Winter 2020. * Trainor, Kim. “Pacific Tree Frog” and “Tonquin.”Fall/Winter 2020. ''The Cold Mountain Review.'' (US). ''Special Issue on the Undiscovered'.'' * Trainor, Kim. “Snowdrop (''Galanthus nivalis'').” ''ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment''. (US). 24 November 2020. https://doi.org/10.1093/isle/isaa135 * Trainor, Kim. “Say Nuth Khaw Yum.” ''Ecological Citizen.'' October 2020. Vol.4, No.1, 2020. * Trainor, Kim. “Pacific Tree Frog” and “Tonquin.”Fall/Winter 2020. ''The Cold Mountain Review.'' (US). ''Special Issue on the Undiscovered.''

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