Melanie Siebert Poetry

ee, which was a finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award. Her nonfiction book Heads Up: Changing Minds on Mental Health won the Lane Anderson Award for best science writing for young readers in Canada. Her most recent poetry collection, Signal Infinities, explores the intelligences and limits of the body, as a therapist takes up an apprenticeship to a lake. As pain arrives. As glaciers and ancient forests disappear. With unbridled oxygen affinity, this work attunes to submerged sensations, reflexes and chemical shifts. Poetic Appetizer Excerpt from “More than the odd existential crisis in the mirror” A lake can’t shake its sky awareness. It flaunts an acquired ability to take it. Tremendously electric, not just a lot of whiskers, lake aspires to build a reputation as a serious documentarian contacting a present moment.