Test Piece

Though they started from Sheryda Warrener's impulse to see herself more clearly, the poems inTest Pieceended up becoming more expansive meditations on seeing and vision. They engage with the process and practice of art-making, and specifically with abstract minimalist works like those by Eva Hesse, Anne Truitt, Ruth Asawa, and Agnes Martin.

Not-seeing/not-knowing is a motif, as is weave, grid, pattern, rhythm of interiors, domestic life. These poems are informed by collage, by the act of bringing images and lines together. With their echoes and reverberations (hand, mirror, body, clear, form, face), a greater complexity is revealed. (From Coach House Books)

Test Piece is available on Sept. 13, 2022.

Sheryda Warrener is the author of the poetry collectionsHard Feelings(Snare, 2010) andFloating is Everything (Nightwood, 2015).Her work can be found inEvent, The Fiddlehead, Grain, Hazlitt, andThe Believer, among other literary journals.

She is a recipient of The Puritan's Thomas Morton Memorial Prize for poetry, and recent poems have been selected forBest Canadian Poetry, The Next Wave: An Anthology of 21st Century Canadian Poetry, and the 2020 CBC Poetry Prize longlist.

Warrener lives in Vancouver with her son and partner, and teaches poetry and interdisciplinary forms in the School of Creative Writing at UBC.

• 32 writers make the 2020 CBC Poetry Prize longlist
• A Blue Filter by Sheryda Warrener(2020 CBC Poetry Prize longlisted poem)