PreviewsConor Kerr
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An Explosion of Feathers
Conor Kerr
This debut collection explores family, history, and cultural resurgence through memories of parties and moonshine, canoeing and berry picking, through love poems to places, people, and past days, and through the eyes of a Magpie/Métis boy experiencing contemporary urban life.
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Avenue of Champions
Conor Kerr
Based on Papaschase and Métis oral histories and personal experience, and set in Alberta, these interlinked stories examine the inherent connection of Indigenous Peoples to the land as it is seen in the relationship of Indigenous youth with urban constructs and colonial spaces. Kerr explores issues such as lateral violence, intergenerational trauma, and language revitalization.
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Beaver Hills Forever
A Metis Poetic Novella
Conor Kerr
This playful, yet hard-hitting novella follows Buddy, a welder in the oil fields; Baby Momma, the mother of his four children, who is trying to go back to school; Fancy University Boy, who begins but drops out of university, and then works in a warehouse supplying oil industry parts; and Aunty Prof, an untenured prof of Indigenous lit – each life showing the limitations of paths available to Métis people on the Prairies, and the determination these characters have to make something of themselves.
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Old Gods
Conor Kerr
With abundant “prayerie” imagery, both urban and rural, and situated in the Métis mindset where the old gods of the land live always in the rivers, the birds, and the grasses, the poems in this collection move restlessly across landscape and time, searching for something to believe in.
