Attic Rain, her debut poetry collection, Calgary based poet and writer Samantha Jones puts obsessive-compulsive disorder centre stage. Lines and words repeat, write over themselves, and read top to bottom and back again, emphasizing themes of self-doubt, anxiety, and negotiation for control. Attic Rain, is a love story nested inside an overarching narrative of self-compassion and awareness. It tours childhood and adulthood, lingering on settings and scenarios typically considered ordinary and unremarkable. The poems in this collection are part of an ongoing act of resilience and an honest account of moving through a world obsessed with normality.

Samantha Jones is an earth scientist, writer, and copyeditor based in Moh’kins’tsis (Calgary, Alberta). Her chapbook, Site Orientation, is available from the Blasted Tree, and her writing appears in Room, THIS, CV2, GeoHumanities, Arctic, EVENT, The Capilano Review, and elsewhere. She is currently a PhD Candidate in Geography at the University of Calgary.

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“[This is] a remarkably creative collection that will resonate with anyone who has ever wrestled with oversized worries at 3 a.m.”
— Ann Douglas, The Honest Talk