Description
In Scorch, Natalie Rice situates our sense of individual disconnection and grief within a larger ecology of loss, where nature is an active force and change is a continuous, complex cycle encompassing both the wildfire and whatever beauty may still rise out of the scorched ground. Grappling with connection and disconnection, plenitude and emptiness, Rice’s poems “lean/into what cannot be explained,” listening for the music, voicing the contradictions“how the unsayable/hung like a red berry in the back/of my throat.”
About the author
Natalie Rice is the author of the chapbook 26 Visions of Light (2020). Her poems have also appeared in journals such as The Trumpeter, Event Magazine, The Dalhousie Review, The Malahat Review and Contemporary Verse 2. She currently lives in Kelowna, BC.
