Published in July 2024.

The Weather Says is a sequence of lyrics and fragmentary longer pieces that address our new relationship with the weather: its highs and lows, its warnings, its benevolences and its dystopic visions. Drawing from a range of lines written by poets, along with scholarly material, these poems address the unavoidable realities, the presumably dull quotidian and even the mysteriously terrifying projections that an awareness of weather gifts us. Whether as small talk or catastrophe, balm or devastation, the weather is intimately bound up with what being truly human means in the 21st century.

Catherine Owen, from Vancouver BC, is the author of sixteen collections of poetry and prose including Riven (ECW 2020) and Moving to Delilah (Freehand Books 2024). She also edits, runs the performance series 94th Street Trobairitz, and hosts the podcast Ms Lyric’s Poetry Outlaws from her 1905 home in Edmonton, Alberta.

Paperback: $15.00. ISBN: 978-1-304-25101-5

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