Win a hard copy of The Pollination Field
by award-winning poet Kim Fahner
Turnstone Press has generously provided On Creative Writing with a hard copy of one of the most beautiful, lush, and lyrical poetry collections published this year -
The Pollination Field by award-winning and talented Canadian author Kim Fahner. Readers have an opportunity to win this book of poetry.
Praise for The Pollination Field
The poems in Kim Fahner’s The Pollination Field carry with them the exquisite wisdom of the hive: a deep, embodied love for the land and the intimacies of place, and a rich understanding of the cycles of loss, grief, resurgence, and thriving.
-Jenna Butler, Revery: A Year of Bees
How to enter
Poetry fans, On Creative Writing has one hard copy of The Pollination Field by award-winning Canadian multigenre author Kim Fahner, and published by Turnstone Press.
For an opportunity to win this collection, send an email to oncreativew @ gmail.com. In the subject line, type The Pollination Field. In the email, write in a few sentences up to a maximum of 60 words why you would like to read The Pollination Field.
On Creative Writing will select one entrant to receive The Pollination Field, based on the persuasiveness of the answer.
This contest is open to people aged 18 and older residing in Canada, the USA, the UK, and the Republic of Ireland.
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About Kim Fahner
Kim Fahner lives and writes in Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. Her books include her sixth book of poetry, The Pollination Field (Turnstone Press, 2025), and her debut novel, The Donoghue Girl (Latitude 46 Publishing, 2024).
Her earlier poetry collections include:
Emptying the Ocean (Frontenanc House, 2022)
These Wings (2019)
Some Other Sky (2017)
The Narcoleptic Madonna (Penumbra Press, 2012)
Braille On Water (Penumbra Press, 2001).
Kim was the fourth Poet Laureate for the City of Greater Sudbury (2016-18) and is the Chair of The Writers’ Union of Canada. In 2024, Kim won first place in The Ampersand Review’s Essay Contest for her essay, “What You Carry.”
Read Kim's interview with On Creative Writing.
Find Kim at Kimfahner.com and on Instagram, SubStack, Bluesky, and Threads.
[Kim Fahner] balances the weight of heavy subjects through her use of beautiful imagery; indeed, her word choice stood out to me as well-placed brush strokes (too numerous for me to recount but sticking with me: a dead bee that “curled into itself like a strange semi-colon”; glaciers that “slid back and forth across continents with the ease of a lover’s hand”; the creation of a hive from stacked hexagons that “soars Fibonacci”). Rather than create the conditions for a sombre read, though, it is instead imaginative and reflective.
-Brynn Robinson, The Seaboard Review of Books
Kim Fahner’s poems are multidirectional, humourous, full of surprises, streaked with grief and occasional terror. The eco-hymn to the vanishing bees, the troubled earth, our personal losses, and our growing fear of the future closing in on us finds new cachet here: new openings, unexpected ways forward, through wit and bravado, a joyful sense of adventure and a deep playful dive into the mythic and ancestral, finding directional promises and possibilities there, here, everywhere. Waggle dance, anyone?
-Di Brandt, The Sweetest Dance on Earth
As I read Kim Fahner’s poems and imaginative folktales of bees, my mind conjures a sensory world where a woman stands in a window; sunlight and dust fly around her, as well as bees, birds, pollen, the notion of the world, even. Lines like: "Remember this: the lighthouse comes before the man. / The man is not the lighthouse even if he shines so brightly", and the layers of time and energy disperse, then coalesce again into the woman and the light. Kim Fahner is part Fae queen, part spirit. Her poems are chains of keys that open rooms where our minds fly on dragonfly wings—gossamer.
-Yvonne Blomer, Death of Persephone: A Murder
About Turnstone Press
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