Book Signing: Katie Vautour

Katie Vautour will be at Broken Books on Saturday, April 13 from 2-4 p.m. signing copies of her debut poetry collection An Unorthodox Guide to Wildlife. Drop by to pick up your signed copy of this stunning collection.



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Katie Vautour's extraordinary debut collection is an eclectic examination of the space where humans and animals meet, where migratory patterns encounter commercial flights, and birds appear as fishermen, security guards, and street performers. There are riffs on the chameleon and lyrebird, odes to buffalo and shark. With poems that are at once intuitive yet idiosyncratic, visceral yet cerebral, and that flourish an unconventional sense of effortless motion, An Unorthodox Guide to Wildlife considers how animals exist in our lives and imaginations: as autonomous beings, as mimics and metaphors of our own lives, and as bellwethers of environmental damage. At times humourous, tragic, or both, these poems tell the story of natural existence in a sometimes unnatural world.