My book of selected poems, A Possible Trust, is available for preorder now!

A Possible Trust: The Poetry of Ronna Bloom, selected with an introduction by Phil Hall is now available for preorder!

“With compassion, humour and sharp-eyed irreverence, Ronna Bloom's work has made a significant impact on Canadian poetry. A Possible Trust is selected from her work to date.

Bloom writes concisely of the precarious, the ephemeral, the epic, and of the fragility and determination of people in daily life and extraordinary health crises. She is attentive to suffering, as well as to spontaneous connections and gestures of love. Her poetry has been used by teachers, architects, spiritual leaders, and in hospitals across Canada. This is poetry engaged with spontaneity, presence, work, and health care. There is a tenderness here where living matters, as does dying, a valuing of the incident, the encounter, the unexpected, the sorrow and the bowl-me-over delight.”

I am honoured to have this book published by Wilfrid Laurier University Press as part of The Laurier Poetry Series. It’s a great gift for me to share these poems with you, many of which are out of print, in this new volume. Much gratitude for painting on the cover by Tim Deverell. And for the care, attention and editing midwifery of poet Phil Hall.

A Possible Trust will be launched in September in Toronto, with a zoom launch later in the fall for friends around the world.