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It was an honour to appear in Presence's Tenth Annual Issue! Deep thanks to Mary Ann Miller for including my poem "Praise." 
 
Many thanks to Ian LeTourneau and Chuqiao Yang of The Fiddlehead. This is one of those journals you dream about being a part of. Couldn't be happier to have my poem "The Messenger" appear in this stellar issue!
 
A special thanks to Erin Vance for publishing my poem "Vision" on the relaunch of Fresh Voices, with the League of Canadian poets!
 
Deeply pleased that Greg McCartney and the team at Honest Ulsterman have a new issue! Thank you for including my poem "Big Water Reveals Itself." It's an extra sweetness to be published beside my husband, James Owens. Reading his poem "Story Begins With the Shifting Away of Desire" is like wading in the pleasure of language.
 
Thanks so much to guest editor Emilee Colyer at Cordite for finding a home for my poem "Wild Strawberries." 
 
I had been looking forward to this issue of On The Seawall for a long time. Deepest thanks to Ron Slate for including two of my poems, "Little Bells" (which references one of my favourite performances by a pianist ever, Evgeny Kissin playing "La Campanella"), and "Land of Joy."  Here's an audio of "Land of Joy." The photo is of my parents on their wedding day. There have been many losses, one way or another, since then, but regardless, it has all been sundogs.
 

Many thanks to Graham Hillard and team of Cumberland River Review for including my poem "August" in the latest issue! Especially pleased with the curation of the poems and how they speak with one another. 
 
Erin Murphy has put together a wonderful anthology through One Art, The Book of Jobs. Thanks so much for making my poem "Pewter" the concluding poem! 
  
I was absolutely shocked to learn that Mary Dalton had chosen a poem of mine to be included in the anthology The Best Canadian Poetry 2026. Thank you thank you thank you! "Ode to Joy" was originally published with Queen's Quarterly. So many thanks to James Carson for originally selecting it publication!
 
I think gobsmacked was the word I used when responding to the news that my poem "A Walking Prayer" was chosen to win the Silver Medal with the National Magazine Awards in Canada. I get shivers thinking about this. Many thanks to Lindsey Childs and the team at Prairie Fire for originally publishing the poem and believing in it. And that kind note forwarded from a jury member makes me cry in a good way. This is what writing is for. This is why we do what we do. Deep thanks Tanya. (I believe you can hear me reading it here.)
 
Many thanks to Erin Bedford of Pinhole Poetry for publishing a poem and posting an interview. I always appreciate these little windows into other writers' lives.
 

                                                                                 

Praise for At Home with Disquiet: Brian Brett, "Erin Wilson’s collection has the range that a dynamic assortment of poems demands in this era. At Home With Disquiet flows like a northern river through the woods and the canyons and homes along the riverbank, its poems like stories, its poems like chants. This is one of the most powerful gathering of poems I’ve read in years..." Roger Mitchell, "Compelling, urgent, lean, Erin Wilson's poems read as though Emily Dickinson's secret love child ran off to Canada and mated with a wolf." Francesca Bell, "Bursting with abundance and beauty... This is a book of dualities, of not odes but laments..." Abbie Copeland, "A rich poetic narrative, the sensual and delicate moments of life, as well as the small but profound details of hunger, desire, and connection..." Nina Murray, "I would call At Home with Disquiet a triumph—however, this poetry grants no illusion(s)..." Contact erinwrites44[at]gmail[dot]com

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