poetry

Paulette Dubé's new poetry collection, the deepest part of the river won't freeze, is crammed with elegant pieces that relate to family, domesticity, and the everyday life that we all experience. She draws on twenty-seven years of living in the Three Rivers Confluence, where even at -40C you can hear the muscle of moving river water beneath thick ice, to explore the intrinsic connection between human and nature.

It helps that this book was published during the pandemic, in Australia, because it made me realize that if something is true and timely, it will happen.