Winner of RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers
Winner of CBC Poetry Prize
Shortlisted for the 2020 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award
Longlisted for the 2020 Pat Lowther Memorial Award

From hybrid bodies to shifting landscapes, Re-Origin of Species blurs the lines of the real. These poems journey through illness and altered states to position disability and madness as evolutionary traits; skilled adaptations aligned with ecological change.

A lyric contemplation of our relationship to the environment, this book looks at the interdependence of species. Weaving personal narratives with a study of the insect kingdom, it draws parallels between human illness, climate change, and the state of peril in the natural world.

Praise for Re-Origin of Species:

"In this debut collection of startling beauty, Alessandra Naccarato weaves together the mythological and mundane, the ephemeral and the eternal, into a luminous tapestry of lyric and narrative. Naccarato's shimmering threads illuminate the connections that bind together every living thing on every level of being-from the interpersonal, to the political, to the spiritual. This is exquisite, playful, intentional poetry-and it just might be medicine for us all." -Kai Cheng Thom, author of I HOPE WE CHOOSE LOVE: A Trans Girl's Notes From the End of the World

"What a hive of a book-these poems are so urgent, gorgeous, and necessary. Re-Origin of Species is a siren's call and warning siren all at once." -Leah Horlick, author of For Your Own Good

"Ranging from the sting of personal loss to navigating landscapes full of promise, Naccarato?s poetry interrogates the place where the personal meets the wild." -2015 RBC Bronwen Wallace Award Jury

About the Author
ALESSANDRA NACCARATO, born and raised in Tkaronto (Toronto), is the recipient of the RBC Bronwen Wallace Award and the CBC Books Poetry Prize. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia, and a graduate degree in Community Economic Development from Concordia University. Her debut poetry collection, Re-Origin of Species, was awarded the AICW Bressani Literary Prize for Poetry, shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, and longlisted for the Pat Lowther Memorial Award. Her creative nonfiction, Imminent Domains: Reckoning with the Anthropocene, was a bronze medal winner of the 2023 Independent Publisher Book Awards in the Essay Category.

Reviews
"In this debut collection of startling beauty, Alessandra Naccarato weaves together the mythological and mundane, the ephemeral and the eternal, into a luminous tapestry of lyric and narrative. Naccarato's shimmering threads illuminate the connections that bind together every living thing on every level of being -- from the interpersonal, to the political, to the spiritual. This is exquisite, playful, intentional poetry -- and it just might be medicine for us all." -- Kai Cheng Thom, author of I HOPE WE CHOOSE LOVE: A Trans Girl's Notes From the End of the World
"What a hive of a book -- these poems are so urgent, gorgeous, and necessary. Re-Origin of Species is a siren's call and warning siren all at once." -- Leah Horlick, author of For Your Own Good
"Ranging from the sting of personal loss to navigating landscapes full of promise, Naccaratos poetry interrogates the place where the personal meets the wild." -- 2015 RBC Bronwen Wallace Award Jury


Awards
Winner of AICW Bressani Literary Prize 2022 (Canada) and CBC Poetry Prize 2017 (Canada) and RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers (Canada). Short-listed for Gerald Lampert Memorial Award 2020 (Canada).



Book Information
ISBN 9781771665421
Author Alessandra Naccarato
Format Paperback
Page Count 96
Imprint Book*hug
Publisher Book*hug
Weight(grams) 159g
Dimensions(mm) 222mm * 146mm * 6mm