A History of Touch
The Sorceress Who Left Too Soon: Poems after Remedios Varo
Advice for Taxidermists and Amateur Beekeepers
Guernica Editions, 2022
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Erin Emily Ann Vance’s first collection of poetry interrogates the position of the female body in folklore, pop culture, and history. Exploring the natural, the supernatural, and everything in-between, the poems in this collection writhe with sharp, and often lurid imagery, digging into the marrow of “sweet wickedness.” The poems in A History of Touching haunt the reader with a both a bitter familiarity and the “the woebegone, the winsome, the wild.”
Advice for Taxidermists and Amateur Beekeepers
The Sorceress Who Left Too Soon: Poems after Remedios Varo
Advice for Taxidermists and Amateur Beekeepers
Stonehouse Publishing, Fall 2019
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"Erin Emily Ann Vance's first novel reads like a Wes Anderson movie set in a Robert Kroetsch small town." -Bruce Cinnamon, Author of The Melting Queen (Newest Press 2019)
The Sorceress Who Left Too Soon: Poems after Remedios Varo
The Sorceress Who Left Too Soon: Poems after Remedios Varo
The Sorceress Who Left Too Soon: Poems after Remedios Varo
Coven Editions, May 2019
Illustrated by Manahil Bandukwala
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"With language that dazzles and haunts, Erin Emily Ann Vance has honored the work of surrealist Remedios Varo in every line of these poems. In The Sorceress Who Left Too Soon each poem is more visceral and strange than the last. There is a deep melancholy here, but something more: a door to a realm beyond our own, where reality unspools and freedom is found." - Catherine Garbinsky, author of All Spells Are Strong Here (Ghost City Press 2018)
The Significance of Home
Spoiled Milk + Wet Specimen
The Sorceress Who Left Too Soon: Poems after Remedios Varo
Unsuitable and Others
Spoiled Milk + Wet Specimen
Spoiled Milk + Wet Specimen
Spoiled Milk + Wet Specimen
Spoiled Milk + Wet Specimen
Spoiled Milk + Wet Specimen
Leaflet, The Blasted Tree Art Collective & Publishing Co., 2018
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"Spellbinding, incantatory, and downright creepy, these poems invoke candle-lit rituals read in the dead of night."
"Gorgeous, hyper-sensory, haunting... Vance's voice is powerful and distinct. She's major." -Mike Thorn, author of Shelter for the Damned
Someday I Will No Longer Write About You
Someday I Will No Longer Write About You
Someday I Will No Longer Write About You
The Night Will Be Long But Beautiful
Someday I Will No Longer Write About You
Someday I Will No Longer Write About You
The Night Will be Long But Beautiful: The Life and Death of Jeff Lakes (Chapbook, Loft on Eighth Press, 2016)
This chapbook was also made into an exquisite art book by printmaker Tim van Wijk in 2017, for the Canada Council funded project, Print(ed) Word with Loft 112 and Alberta Printmakers. You can view it in the West vestibule of Calgary Central Library's TD Great Reading Room.
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