Nanaimo's Sonnet L'Abbé, a Vancouver Island University professor and poet, says her childhood experiences inspired her poetry chapbook Anima Canadensis. L'Abbé said her poetry often deals with issues of race and gender, and how they play into the idea of Canadian identity. L'Abbé said poems in Anima Canadensis — which can be translated as Canadian Life — describe the Canadian identify as fluid and always changing. She said it was a thrill to work with the small chapbook medium and to distribute copies by hand and through word of mouth. "The chapbook scene, the small press scene, is still where it's fun to try out new work if you want to do something different," said L'Abbé.

Source: CBC News December 04, 2017 01:07 UTC