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Alison Swan’s collection of poems, A Fine Canopy, illustrates how the natural world envelops and encloses us with so many beautiful things: crowns of leaves, the ubiquitous blue sky, our luminous moon, and snow. So much snow.
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Alison Swan’s fifth book, A Fine Canopy, released by Wayne State University Press in 2020, was short-listed for an IPPY Poetry Medal by Independent Publisher, name one of the eleven most anticipated poetry releases of fall 202o by LitHub, and highly recommended by Orion magazine. Her first, Fresh Water: Women Writing on the Great Lakesis a Michigan...
Alison Swan was born in Detroit in 1962. Her fifth book, A Fine Canopy, was released by Wayne State University Press in 2020 and recommended by Publisher’s Weekly, Orion magazine, and LitHub. Her poems and essays have appeared in many publications, including her poetry chapbooks Before the Snow Moon and Dog Heart, the recent anthologies Elemental: ...
Born in the Detroit in 1962, Alison Swan’s fifth book, A Fine Canopy, was released by Wayne State University Press in 2020 and recommended by Publisher’s Weekly, Orion magazine, and LitHub. Her poems and essays have appeared in many publications, including her poetry chapbooks Before the Snow Moon and Dog Heart, the recent award-winning anthologies...
Alison Swan, is a British–American filmmaker, writer, actor, campaign manager and real estate developer from Bermuda Swan is a native of Bermuda, and is known for her films Mixing Nia (1998) and Nothing like the Holidays (2008).
Jan 20, 2021 · In a Great Lakes world dominated by policy proclamations, fights for funding and the never-ending conflict between the triad of politicians, business and environmental interests, Michigan poet Alison Swan operates on a different level.
I’m a poet and writer who’s rattled by our apparent disregard for the “fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plants, and animals.” That’s Aldo Leopold’s definition of land, as laid out in his clarion call to protect all of nature: A Sand County Almanac.
Dec 11, 2020 · LANSING — Poet Alison Swan became a creative writer long before she was an environmental activist. She fell in love with written words as soon as she could read and started writing poems when she was little. Her new book “A Fine Canopy” is a collection of poems about nature and the environment.
