Falling Blues sings about edges and air, about fear, about letting go, jumping, plunging. The poems chart some of the many ways we have of falling in and out (of love, of lines), of falling for and under (spells, sinners, mystics), of falling off and down and getting back up and on again. It's about what throws and carries us, what we are given, what we learn and what – and who – we take with us on the vertiginous journey through the body's mischief, to the stillness we imagine lies beyond falling.

Jannie Edwards' profile page

• Long-listed, Alberta Reader's Choice
• Short-listed, Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry

Jannie Edwards was born in South Africa and now lives and writes in Edmonton, Alberta. Her second book of poetry, Blood Opera: The Raven Tango Poems, was a collaboration with visual artist Paul Saturley and was adapted for the stage by Edmonton’s Theatre Prospero. Her videopoem, Engrams: Reach and Seize Memory, is a collaborative work inspired by the installation tryptych of Edmonton artist Darci Mallon. The work features Edwards’ poetry translated into American Sign Language and performed by Deaf actor and translator Linda Cundy. Jannie Edwards’ website is http://www.jannieedwards.ca.