In Sublime: Poems for Vanishing Ice, poets from across Turtle Island explore what it means to enter into conversation with ice. The poems in Yvonne Blomer’s third, water-focused anthology exemplify sublime as both verb and adjective: these are poems that skate, drink, stomp, crush, and dive. In poems that range from street hockey to snow angels to meltwater, poets write to the ever-changing ways of ice. Other poems grapple with fires that melt permafrost and rising temperatures that fracture and erode lives. In the poems, fissures form into ever-expanding crevasses, and animals suffer because of humanity’s negative impact on Earth’s most ancient of water systems: ice. Sign up for open mic begins at 6:00 PM, readings begin at 6:15 PM. Accessible venue. Open to all. Britannia Library, 1661 Napier Street, Vancouver
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Type: Poetry, Reading
Sponsored by: Word Vancouver · Pandora’s Collective · Vancouver Public Library
Hosts: Daniela Elza, Is This an Illness or an Accident? (Caitlin Press) & SCAR/CITY (McGill-Queen’s University Press) · Natasha Boskic
Readers: Poets from Sublime: Poems for Vanishing Ice (Caitlin Press)
About The Hosts
Daniela Elza
Daniela Elza's sixth poetry collection "Scar/city" (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2025) was shortlisted for the 2026 George Ryga Award for work showing outstanding social awareness. Poems from Scar/city were longlisted for the 2024 CBC Poetry Prize. Her debut essay collection "Is This an Illness or an Accident?" (Caitlin Press, 2025) delves into the conflicts and contradictions of what it means to belong, to work, and find home. Daniela is the recipient of the 2024 Colleen Thibaudeau Award for Outstanding Contribution to Poetry & the 2010 Pandora’s Collective Citizenship Award. When she is not writing or volunteering in her community, she works as a creative writing instructor, editor, & mentor on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations, also known as Vancouver.
Natasha Boskic
Natasha Boškić is a writer and a multimedia artist. She integrates poetry and words in different media. In the last couple of years she had been combining poetry with weaving or sewing. She exhibited her work locally, in Surrey, Port Coquitlam, New Westminster, Bowen Island and different places in Vancouver. Her pieces were on display at the Festival: XXL Textile Variations – 2026, in Fontenay-sous-Bois, France.
