Multiple-award-winning poet, instructor and editor Sandra Ridley is the author of three books of poetry: The Counting House, Post-Apothecary and Fallout, which won the 2010 Saskatchewan Book Award and the Alfred G. Bailey Prize. Ridley has also been a finalist for the Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry and the KM Hunter Artist Award for Literature. She lives in Ottawa.

Silvija

In a sequence of five feverish elegies, Sandra Ridley’s Silvija combines the styles of narrative lyric and experimental verse to manifest dark themes related to love and loss, the traumas of psychological suffering, physical abuse, terminal illness, revelation, resolution and healing. Pulsing with the award-winning writer’s signature blend of fervour and sangfroid, the serial poems in Silvija accrue into a book-length testament to a grief both personal and human, leaving readers with the redemptive grace that comes from poetry’s ability to wrestle chaos into meaning.