the new books in the media
Posted by Daniela Elza on Dec 21 2025
I love when I hear back from people who are reading the new books. Thank you for all your thoughts on the essays and the poetry. These reflections and echos are little compasses for me, telling me what lands well with readers.
CBC posted a list of books by past CBC Literary Prizes winners and finalists that came out in 2025 . And Is this an Illness or an Accident? and Scar/city are on it.
Scar/city also made the BC Review Year-end Reviewer Picks. Thank you to the reviewers who selected my book for this list and this one sentence that says so much:
“These poems—on the tough topic of community and the forces that break it—dance through the streets with characteristic pitch-perfect timing, self-awareness, and sheer lyric exuberance.”
The latest issue of BC Book World newspaper had a paragraph on my twin book adventures this year and mention of the books, both of which speak of home and the fight we are in, but Scar/city exclusively focuses on what we are up against.
Here again is the first review of Scar/city in case you had not seen it. And I am looking forward to a first review of my debut prose collection: Is this an Illness or an Accident? I love firsts and the challenges and celebrations that come along with such moments.
Wishing every one a wonderful holiday season. May you rest, rejuvenate, and may there be much love and laughter and magic during this time of moving from the old year into the new.
Happy Solstice to all; may peace around the world grow with the light.
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