Phases (expanded edition, signed) - Belinda Betker
In this new revised, expanded edition of her acclaimed debut poetry collection, Phases, Belinda Betker deftly captures what it’s like for those who don’t fit within rigid notions of what it means to be a “boy” or a “girl”. She takes readers on a luminous journey of a young girl’s coming-of-age, her burgeoning sexuality, an unhappy marriage, the triumphant release of coming out, and the liberating power of drag.
Thirty-one new poems have been added to the first edition which was a 2020 finalist for two Saskatchewan Book Awards. The copies available through The Drop Spot Studio are signed by Belinda.
In these poems, readers will find a celestial and transcendent rediscovering of the self; an unravelling of society’s expectations of gender, love, and desire, and how these falsehoods threaten to eclipse out truth. Phases is mercurial and unpredictable, a celebration of the non-conformist in each of us.
In this new revised, expanded edition of her acclaimed debut poetry collection, Phases, Belinda Betker deftly captures what it’s like for those who don’t fit within rigid notions of what it means to be a “boy” or a “girl”. She takes readers on a luminous journey of a young girl’s coming-of-age, her burgeoning sexuality, an unhappy marriage, the triumphant release of coming out, and the liberating power of drag.
Thirty-one new poems have been added to the first edition which was a 2020 finalist for two Saskatchewan Book Awards. The copies available through The Drop Spot Studio are signed by Belinda.
In these poems, readers will find a celestial and transcendent rediscovering of the self; an unravelling of society’s expectations of gender, love, and desire, and how these falsehoods threaten to eclipse out truth. Phases is mercurial and unpredictable, a celebration of the non-conformist in each of us.
In this new revised, expanded edition of her acclaimed debut poetry collection, Phases, Belinda Betker deftly captures what it’s like for those who don’t fit within rigid notions of what it means to be a “boy” or a “girl”. She takes readers on a luminous journey of a young girl’s coming-of-age, her burgeoning sexuality, an unhappy marriage, the triumphant release of coming out, and the liberating power of drag.
Thirty-one new poems have been added to the first edition which was a 2020 finalist for two Saskatchewan Book Awards. The copies available through The Drop Spot Studio are signed by Belinda.
In these poems, readers will find a celestial and transcendent rediscovering of the self; an unravelling of society’s expectations of gender, love, and desire, and how these falsehoods threaten to eclipse out truth. Phases is mercurial and unpredictable, a celebration of the non-conformist in each of us.
