PreviewsBilly-Ray Belcourt
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A History of My Brief Body
Billy-Ray Belcourt
This memoir by the youngest winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize opens with memories of his early life in Joussard, Alberta, and on the Driftpile First Nation, and expands to encompass the legacy of colonial violence, first loves, sexual exploration, and the act of writing as a survival instinct and as a way to grieve.
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Coexistence
Stories
Billy-Ray Belcourt
In these stories set across the Prairies and the West Coast, on reserves and university campuses, at literary festivals and existential crossroads, characters search for meaning and connection. Belcourt demonstrates yet again his mastery of and playfulness in any genre.
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NDN Coping Mechanisms
Notes from the Field
Billy-Ray Belcourt
This new collection by the Griffin Poetry Prize–winning Belcourt uses poetry, poetics, prose, and textual art to take a playful, candid, and campy look at what is missed by mainstream media when it comes to NDN and queer social worlds.
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The Idea of An Entire Life
Poems
Billy-Ray Belcourt
In his characteristic autobiographical and philosophical style, Belcourt’s latest collection explores the past, the value of poetry, the persistence of grief, and the comfort of the northern forest, and draws upon historical documents, art, literature, and criticism. Forms such as sonnets (including a crown of sonnets), erasure poems, ekphrastic poems, field notes, and fragments are used to sometimes humorous, more often heartbreaking, effect.
