poetry

Available in the US
World Rights Available

ISBN 978-1-897235-54-6; paper;
$12.95 CAD; 64 pages , trade paper; September 2008

Kelly-Anne Riess portrays women naked in loneliness and longing. She details our self-destructive nature and our inability to save ourselves once we’ve pursued love’s twisted, and dangerous, paths. But, there remains the indomitable human spirit’s ability to endure and come back for more and Riess’ poems capture that spirit in remarkable ways.

“In the contemporary social-scapes of Kelly-Anne Riess’ poems, paradise got lost a long time ago. Riess’ Eve is closer to Bridget Jones parachuted onto the streets of Regina. These are sly, wry, manic, and determinedly human poems for the new millennium. With a documentary eye and the poetic sensibility of a Jann Arden, Riess writes candidly about getting dumped, getting laid, and getting paid by ‘pasty/bosses with sausage-fat limbs who crumb/creativity like dried bread.’ A sassy debut.” — Jeanette Lynes, author of It’s Hard Being Queen: The Dusty Springfield Poems