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The Flicker Tree (Ronsdale Press, 2012) How do we learn to be where we live? How can a 21st-century mind, saturated with the culture and metaphors of contemporary life, connect to the natural world that surrounds us? In Nancy Holmes\u2019 book of poetry, these questions are asked of her home, the Okanagan valley in the southern interior of British Columbia. In these poems, as Holmes comes to terms with personal grief, she tries to find consolation in the place she shares with other beings. Holmes\u2019 poetry looks for relationships with the prickly pear cacti, bluebunch wheatgrass, the black bears, the coyotes, and the northern flickers. She seeks to embed herself in the geography and consciousness of this arid Western landscape, one of the most endangered ecosystems in Canada, a landscape of great beauty and spiritual power with its volcanic glaciated mountains and fragile long lakes. The result is poetry that is both elegiac and humorous, with a vision often skewed by the lenses of mass media, anxiety, and the obsessions of the contemporary world. Sometimes disturbed and questioning, sometimes delighted and awed, sometimes troubled by the history of settlers and indigenous peoples, the poems explore our complicity in the destruction of, and our love for, the wild animals, plants, and places around us.<\/p>\n (Description Source: Ronsdale Press<\/a>)<\/p>\n Nancy Holmes<\/strong> is an associate professor in the Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies (FCCS) at UBC Okanagan. She has published six collections of poetry, most recently Arborophobia<\/em> (University of Alberta Press, 2022) and The Flicker Tree: Okanagan Poems<\/em> (Ronsdale Press, 2012), a collection of poems about the place, people, plants, and animals of the Okanagan Valley in the southern interior of British Columbia. Nancy won the 2017 Malahat Review\u2019s Creative Non-Fiction award.<\/p>\n Nancy\u2019s poems, essays and short stories have been published in Canada, the UK, and Ireland. She is the editor of Open Wide a Wilderness: Canadian Nature Poems<\/em> (Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2009). She teaches Creative Writing and has been both Head of the Department of Creative Studies and the Associate Dean of Research and Graduate Studies in FCCS. She also collaborates with communities and other artists on eco art projects both locally and internationally, including the award-winning Border Free Bees project https:\/\/borderfreebees.com\/<\/a>. UBC Library Holdings<\/em><\/p>\n https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/f2tsyv23<\/a><\/p>\n From the Publisher \u2013 Ronsdale Press<\/a> Paper ISBN: 9781553801832 The\u00a0University of British Columbia Okanagan Classroom Artwork Project<\/em>\u00a0aims to display academically inspiring artwork in classrooms and other teaching areas of the university.<\/p>\n Artwork displayed as part of this project \u2013 including the covers of books and journals containing work written or edited by UBCO scholars and researchers \u2013 is intended to help enliven university teaching spaces, educate classroom users about the connections between research and teaching, and introduce members of the broader public to some of the research and scholarship carried out at UBCO.<\/p>\n If you know of other book or journal covers, or other academically inspiring artwork that is connected to work carried out by UBCO artists, scholars or researchers and that is consistent with UBCO\u2019s educational mission, please email your suggestions to\u00a0classroom.artwork@ubc.ca<\/a>.<\/p>\n The\u00a0UBC Okanagan Classroom Artwork Project<\/em>\u00a0began in 2019 with support from the Irving K. Barber School of Arts and Sciences. It is now a joint project of UBCO\u2019s Faculties and the Office of the Provost.<\/p>\n Artwork and other images that are a part of this project are displayed solely for educational purposes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Flicker Tree Okanagan Poems (Ronsdale Press, 2012) ART 208 How do we learn to be where we live? How can a 21st-century mind, saturated with the culture and metaphors of contemporary life, connect to the natural world that surrounds us? 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\n<\/em><\/strong>Okanagan Poems<\/em><\/p>\n
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\neBook ISBN: 9781553801849<\/p>\n
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