Elements wins NorthWords NWT Book Award
Elements, written by Jamesie Fournier and translated by Jaypeetee Arnakak, has won the 2024 NorthWords NWT Book Award!
In this complex, at times dark, poetry collection from Inuk author Jamesie Fournier, readers are taken through the recesses of a character struggling with inner demons whispering into his mind. As he attempts to overcome his inner turmoil within a Colonial and contemporary system that oppresses him, the speaker guides readers through verse both ethereal and imagistic. Echoing artists as varied as Margaret Laurence and The Velvet Underground, this sweeping collection of bilingual verse deals with erasure, resilience, and—above all—resistance through the voice of one complex protagonist.
“Simply stunning,” was the consensus of this year’s judges.
“Jamesie is a blood and guts kind of writer. He wants to grab on to the here and now and make sense of it, or at least hold it up to scrutiny.”
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