
King of Terrors
CBC BOOKS CANADIAN POETRY COLLECTIONS TO WATCH FOR IN FALL 2023
What can we remove from ourselves and still be ourselves?
Written after a brain tumour diagnosis, The King of Terrors is a treatise on living with illness and the way that language, relationships and our immersion in the natural world can free us from the spectre of impending collapse. Johnstone''s poems oscillate between the personal a...
CBC BOOKS CANADIAN POETRY COLLECTIONS TO WATCH FOR IN FALL 2023
What can we remove from ourselves and still be ourselves?
Written after a brain tumour diagnosis, The King of Terrors is a treatise on living with illness and the way that language, relationships and our immersion in the natural world can free us from the spectre of impending collapse. Johnstone''s poems oscillate between the personal a...