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An off-beat examination of the denials that underpin extractive capitalism. From the cratered lake of Chennai, India to the environmental racism of Neon Genesis Evangelion's Tokyo-3, Sunny Ways oscillates between images of environmental collapse and resistance. Standing waist deep in the massive tailing ponds of Alberta's Tar Sands, Sunny Ways wades through the tangled complicities of climate catastrophe. In the process, the book grapples with the failure of political hope and the intransigence of climate change denialism. Fitzpatrick channels his experiences growing up in the big sky economic pragmatism of Calgary, where oil pays the rent and puts food on the table, into an essayistic pair of long poems that echo the ecological poetics of writers like Rita Wong, Stephen Collis, and Juliana Spahr.
About the author
ryan fitzpatrick is the publisher of the online-based and poetry-focused Model Press. He was on the editorial collective of
filling Station magazine and helped found the Flywheel Reading Series. He is the author of four books of poetry, including
Sunny Ways (Invisible Publishing) and
Coast Mountain Foot (Talonbooks). A former resident of Calgary and Vancouver, ryan now lives in Toronto. You can find him at ryanfitzpatrick.ca.
Summary
An off-beat examination of the denials that underpin extractive capitalism.
From the cratered lake of Chennai, India to the environmental racism of Neon Genesis Evangelion’s Tokyo-3, Sunny Ways oscillates between images of environmental collapse and resistance.
Standing waist deep in the massive tailing ponds of Alberta’s Tar Sands, Sunny Ways wades through the tangled complicities of climate catastrophe. In the process, the book grapples with the failure of political hope and the intransigence of climate change denialism. Fitzpatrick channels his experiences growing up in the big sky economic pragmatism of Calgary, where oil pays the rent and puts food on the table, into an essayistic pair of long poems that echo the ecological poetics of writers like Rita Wong, Stephen Collis, and Juliana Spahr.
Foreword
Top cities in which ryan has connections for events, media, etc.: Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, Edmonton, Winnipeg, Calgary, Vancouver
Author current residence: Toronto
Local bookstore: knifeforkbook, Book City: Beaches
Local library: TPL: Main St.
Community ties: ryan used to sit on the editorial collective of filling Station magazine and was a co-founder of the Flywheel Reading Series
Academic ties: Simon Fraser University, University of Toronto, University of Calgary
Opportunities to pair with Zane Koss whose Harbour Grids (Invisible) also asks the reader to grapple with strange speculations and a framework of time and space
National and regional media pitches to print, podcasts, online, and radio
National advertising and social media advertising
Reading club guide
