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Make It Stop

Meaghan Strimas

$22.95

The much-anticipated fourth collection from an award-winning, modern feminist voice, for fans of Kate Baer and Lyndsay Rush… and anyone else who likes poetry that’s entertaining and sincere.

Make It Stop is a sharp and morbidly funny poetry collection that confronts the unbearable and then finds a way to live with it. Strimas’s poems are powered by invasive thoughts about parenting, gender relations, time running out, and the legacies we leave for our children. Reacting to the urgencies of our time—environmental collapse, violence, cultural fatigue, and the seemingly inevitable worsening of our politics—these poems move between the world’s external chaos and the intimate terrain of inner life.

Accessible, unflinching, and brutally honest, Strimas’s work creates small, powerful worlds where heartbreak and absurdity exist side by side, and where meaning persists despite it all.

“Meaghan Strimas’s Yes or Nope is an anti-lyric collection—acerbic, awkward and aching. In vignettes that show characters in situations of disenchantment, Strimas refuses the safety of tenderness; instead she finds visceral imagery, a shift and sharp turn of phrase, and unexpected humour. These poems are a kind of sudden, bitter fiction, making poetry our of lives and moments from which others would rather look away.”—Trillium Book Award for Poetry jury citation

Author

Meaghan Strimas

Publication date

May 4, 2027

Print details

9781998336388 / Paperback / 5.5 x 8.5 / 96 pages

Ebook details

9781998336340 / DRM-free epub / Conforms to WCAG 2.0 Level AA

Rights

World

Colophon

Printed in Canada by Imprimerie Gauvin (Gatineau, Quebec) using Sustana EnviroBook™ 100% recycled uncoated paper and cover stock milled near Montreal, Quebec.

Using one ton of Sustana EnviroBook™ rather than a virgin paper saves the equivalent of 24 trees, 1,773 gallons of water, and 3,399 lbs of greenhouse gas emissions.