poems by PAULA TURCOTTE
July 2024
shortlisted for the 2025 bpNichol Chapbook Prize

28 pp., thread bound, 5.75"x 7.5"
ISBN # 978-1-928066-97-2
in an edition of 75 numbered copies
cover of St. Armand Canal paper
flyleaf of Japanese Chiri tissue

cover artwork: Karen Kryzan
edited by: Cassidy McFadzean

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Paula Turcotte loves her dog, your dog, and Raisin Bran. She was born and raised on Treaty 7 land, home of the Siksika, Piikani, Kainai, Tsuut'ina and Stoney Nakoda First Nations. Her work has been published in Canthius, Arc Poetry, untethered, and elsewhere, and she was the 2023 People's Choice winner in CV2 's 2-Day Poetry Contest. Paula is a poetry editor at MAYDAY.

Read Pearl Pirie's review of Permutations for The Miramichi Reader here:
https://miramichireader.ca

The bpNichol Prize judges’ citation:
“Paula Turcotte’s Permutations triangulates the surreal, pop culture and a playfully gritty eroticism into poems that sizzle. Smart, funny and fantastically varied in phrasing and form, Turcotte’s poems render the world livable for another day under a panoply of rituals.”
- MA|DE and Kevin Spenst