a 16-poem sequence by JEREMY LUKE HILL
Sept 2024
shortlisted for the 2025 bpNichol Chapbook Prize

28 pp., thread bound, 5.75"x 7.5"
ISBN # 978-1-928066-98-9
in an edition of 75 numbered copies
cover of St. Armand Canal paper
flyleaf of handmade Nepalese Lokta

cover artwork: MJ Gordon

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Jeremy Luke Hill is the publisher at Gordon Hill Press, a literary publisher based in Guelph, Ontario. He is also the Managing Director of Vocamus Writers Community, a non-profit community organization that supports book culture in Wellington County.

The bpNichol Prize judges’ citation:
“Stunningly strange and fantastically complex, the sequence of Jeremy Luke Hill’s Microchimaera twists personal parenthood and creaturely biology into a single poetic helix. Obsession begets repetition, and mundane life reiterates into myth, in a multi-headed song of blood in which “past lives die always, trail their dead selves / like angels of history trail refuse of time, / sloughing off dead cells and empty eggshells.” These are poems to appreciate on a first reading, discover on a second, and learn from in all subsequent reads.”
- MA|DE and Kevin Spenst