pause

ABSTRACT

pause is an excerpt of a body of work begun during my time as Writer in Residence at the University of Alberta, in Treaty 6 Territory, 2020–2021. This writing was generated through a daily writing practice undertaken in collaboration with Christine Stewart and informed by an ongoing walking, talking, listening with notokwew muskwa manitokan (old woman bear). This practice attempts, through pause and attention, to acknowledge the territory in which this writing becomes possible.

KEYWORDS:

• Attention
• daily practice
• land acknowledgement
• walking
• collaboration
• ecopoetry

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J. R. Carpenter

J. R. Carpenter is an artist, writer, and researcher working across performance, print, and digital media. She is best known for her work on questions of place, displacement, migration, and climate change. Her digital poem The Gathering Cloud won the New Media Writing Prize 2016. Her debut poetry collection, An Ocean of Static, was highly commended for the Forward Prizes 2018. Her recent collection, This is a Picture of Wind, was listed in The Guardian’s best poetry books of 2020 and longlisted for the Laurel Prize 2021. She is currently a Research Fellow working on Weather Reports - Wind as Model, Media, and Experience at Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton.