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In Your Nature by Estlin McPhee $23.95 CAD
8.5 X 5.75 Inches | 96 Pages | Publication Date: April 1, 2025
About In Your Nature
“I delete my history / badly,” writes Estlin McPhee in this searing, witty, lyrical, and elegiac debut collection of poems about intersections of trans identity, magic, myth, family, and religion. The line refers at once to a young person’s browser data that reveals an interest in gender transition; an adult’s efforts to reconcile complicated relationships; a culture’s campaign to erase queerness and transness from the historical record; and a religion’s attempt to pretend that its own particular brand of miraculous transformation is distinct from the kind found in folktales or real life. Populated by transmasculine werewolves, homoerotic Jesuses, adolescent epiphanies, dutiful sisters, boy bands, witches, mothers who speak in tongues, and nonnas who cross the sea, this is a book in which relational and narrative continuity exists, paradoxically, as a series of ruptures with the known.
Praise for In Your Nature
“Estlin McPhee captures the rage and revelation of youth with tenderness, generosity, beauty, and sophisticated, far-reaching intelligence. The refined, inviting lyricism of these poems ground their complexity and invention, where pop culture is sacred and Christian mythology is folkloric, messy, and queer, where images and stories echo and transmute across time, empowering in one turn and devastating in the next. Buy this book for yourself, your past self, and every young person you know.”— Kim Fu, author of Lesser Known Monsters of the 21st Century and How Festive the Ambulance
About the Author
Estlin McPhee is a writer and librarian who lives on the traditional territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh peoples. They hold an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia and are the author of the poetry chapbook Shapeshifters (Rahila’s Ghost Press, 2018). Estlin’s writing has appeared in journals across North America; their poem “Lupo Mannaro” was named the Poetry Gold Winner in Alberta’s 2020 Magazine Awards. For many years, they co-organized REVERB, a queer reading series in Vancouver. In Your Nature is Estlin’s debut poetry collection.