Sweet Vinegars

Claudia Coutu Radmore

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In her stellar new collection Sweet Vinegars, Claudia Radmore looks deeply into the stories of everyday plants that some might call weeds. Playful or sombre, sometimes both—and more—the poems (like bees a er pollen) go to the heart of what it is to be human now, in a world where so much is at stake. Whether in purple loosestrife keeping company with the catastrophe of “thousands of small forgotten bones,” or with water lilies considering “how heavenly when it’s over to rest by the sunset’s fire,” Radmore reckons with being alive and alert to beauty and meaning on the cusp of multiple extinctions.

Susan Gillis, author of The Rapids and Yellow Crane.

In Claudia Radmore’s Sweet Vinegars, we stroll alongside the poet and magic sprinkled throughout the earthly world of flowers and weeds. From learning that ragweed is a quail’s ambrosia to a poem made up of bulrush our recipes, this mighty collection blooms with playful, surprising, thoughtful, and magical observations. Reading Sweet Vinegars, to quote Blake, is to see the world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower.

Greg Santos, author of Ghost Face and Blackbirds.

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An alternative title for this collection (which gives a hint of what we never expected to know about Canadian wild flowers), was Let’s Go Out and Be Naughty Tonight. Wild flowers, like other living beings, have feelings, desires, and interior lives. In Sweet Vinegars, the poet offers an introduction to what invigorates and excites what we usually call weeds.

Writer and small press publisher originally from Montreal, Claudia Coutu Radmore has been publishing various arrangements of words since the mid-1990s. She imagines that her poems are linked just as tightly to childhood wanderings and wonderings as to encounters with the natural world in the 21st century.

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		Sweet Vinegars wildflower poems Claudia Coutu Radmore $?.00 In her stellar new collection Sweet Vinegars, Claudia Radmore looks deeply into the stories of everyday plants that some might call weeds. Playful or sombre, sometimes both—and more—the poems (like bees a er pollen) go to the heart of what it is to be human now, in a world where so much is at stake. Whether in purple loosestrife keeping company with the catastrophe of “thousands of small forgotten bones,” or with water lilies considering “how heavenly when it’s over to rest by the sunset’s fire,” Radmore reckons with being alive and alert to beauty and meaning on the cusp of multiple extinctions. Susan Gillis, author of The Rapids and Yellow Crane. In Claudia Radmore’s Sweet Vinegars, we stroll alongside the poet and magic sprinkled throughout the earthly world of flowers and weeds. From learning that ragweed is a quail’s ambrosia to a poem made up of bulrush our recipes, this mighty collection blooms with playful, surprising, thoughtful, and magical observations. Reading Sweet Vinegars, to quote Blake, is to see the world in a grain of sand and heaven in a wild flower. Greg Santos, author of Ghost Face and Blackbirds. ORDER HERE: