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"Katie Vatour's extraordinary debut collection is an eclectic examination of the space where humans and animals meet, where migratory patterns encounter commercial flights, where moose clash with midsize sedans, and birds appear as fishermen, security guards, and street performers. There are riffs on the chameleon and lyrebird, and odes to buffalo and shark. With poems at once intuitive yet idiosyncratic, visceral yet cerebral, AN UNORTHODOX GUIDE TO WILDLIFE considers how animals exist in our lives and imaginations -- as autonomous creatures, as mimics, and as bellwethers of environmental change -- and how this relationship refracts our understanding of the human animal. At times humorous, tragic, or both, these poems tell the story of natural existence in an often unnatural world." -- Back cover.
About the author
Katie Vautour is a visual artist and writer published in a variety of literary journals, and though she dabbles in all genres (including fiction, non-fiction, and playwriting), her main focus is poetry. She is also the director of the Piper's Frith Writing Retreat. Katie graduated from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University with majors in Filmmaking, Painting, Drawing and Art History. She has participated in residencies in Oaxaca, Mexico, New Brunswick, and the Banff Centre. She exhibits her mixed-media work, paintings, and drawings throughout Atlantic Canada, and gladly repurposes offered used materials into art. She lives in St. John's.
