Love Is A Place But You Cannot Live There

by Jade Wallace

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Pub Date Apr 01 2023 | Archive Date Apr 28 2023

Poetry

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Description

Each section of Love Is A Place But You Cannot Live There is a psychogeographic investigation. Two casual ghost hunters on a road trip hear the death rattle of their relationship. Residents of a city’s fringe measure their physical and social isolation. A mother and her adult child have diametrically opposed reactions to their vacation spot. Lovers on a romantic coastal getaway discover how estranged they are from one another. Curious figures begin to embody their environments. Forthright and anecdotal, these poems recount the signals people transmit and receive, and the reciprocal ways we make, and are made by, the places we inhabit.

Each section of Love Is A Place But You Cannot Live There is a psychogeographic investigation. Two casual ghost hunters on a road trip hear the death rattle of their relationship. Residents of a...

A Note From the Publisher

Jade Wallace's chapbook A TRIP TO THE ZZOO was shortlisted for the bpNichol Chapbook Award.

This is their debut full-length poetry collection.

Their second collection, written as part of the collaborative entity MA/DE, will be out in 2025.

Jade Wallace's chapbook A TRIP TO THE ZZOO was shortlisted for the bpNichol Chapbook Award.

This is their debut full-length poetry collection.

Their second collection, written as part of...

Advance Praise

Jade Wallace’s inventive debut poetry collection reminds us that we are all fundamentally travellers … travel is a mode of movement and critical self-reflection in this extraordinary book.

—Adam Dickinson, professor of poetry and author of Anatomic

Firmly anchored in the tradition of the Southern Ontario Gothic, Love Is A Place But You Cannot Live There maps the eerie unmappable … Jade Wallace writes with tenderness, humour, and a haunting perspicacity that is all their own.

—Annick MacAskill, author of Murmurations and Shadow Blight

Wallace’s curious, nimble, and nostalgic words land with the halcyon sweetness of Ambrosia salad, the unsettling significance of an abandoned house. There’s music in this phenomenal collection.

—Hollay Ghadery, reviews editor for Minola Review and author of Fuse

Jade Wallace’s inventive debut poetry collection reminds us that we are all fundamentally travellers … travel is a mode of movement and critical self-reflection in this extraordinary book.

—Adam...