04/09/2026
✨Coming soon!✨ Half Earth by Blair Trewartha, forthcoming with Palimpsest Press, May 15, 2026.
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In his second full-length poetry collection, Half-Earth, Blair Trewartha explores what it means to survive in a world beset by climate crisis and the ever-distorting realities of digitised human life. Throughout, the poet weaves dreamlike narraves and excavates scenes of deep history that connect to both family and illness, all the while questioning how to raise young children through a pandemic and the advent of Artificial Intelligence. Rather than sermonizing or catastrophizing, Trewartha presents moments that exist on the brink of both the past and the future, replete with prehistoric tusks frozen in foreign tundra, a decaying family farmhouse, firestorms, the zeitgeist by algorithm, and a toddler’s visualisation of death. Half-Earth is a long-awaited beacon from one of Canada’s finest poets.
Blair Trewartha’s debut poetry collection , Easy Fix, (Palimpsest Press, 2014) was shortlisted for the Relit Award. He also is the author of three chapbooks: Break In (Cactus Press, 2010),Porcupine Burning (Baseline Press, 2012), and human energy (Anstruther Press, 2022). His work has recently appeared in The Dalhousie Review, Prairie Fire Magazine, and The Fiddlehead. Born and raised in Huron County (Treaty 29 Territory), Blair now lives in London, Ontario (Treaty 6) with his partner and two children. Half-Earth is his second full-length collection of poetry.
Blair Trewartha Palimpsest Press
