Speech Dries Here on the Tongue Non-Fiction for which we won the

for which we won the Governor General’s Award for Poetry in 1938

A signal achievement

his first collection of nonfiction

He emigrated to Canada in 1962

Speech Dries Here on the Tongue Non-Fiction for which we won theSpeech Dries Here on the Tongue is an anthology of poetry by Canadian authors exploring the relationship between environmental collapse and mental health. This threat of environmental collapse has brought with it a sense of impending annihilation and has contributed to the current mental health crisis, made crueller by a global pandemic that highlighted our fragile nature. These are poems by writers who have used their words to both articulate and