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\nIn \;S ublime: Poems for Vanishing Ice\, celebrated poets from across Canada and the U.S. consider the beauty\, fragility and decline of ice. These ar e poems that ask: what will be released as the planet&rsquo\;s ice melts? And how will this reshape the planet we call home?
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Bruce Rice \;is a previou
s Saskatchewan Poet Laureate\, an editor and essayist. In addition to six
poetry collections\, his new nonfiction book\, Standstill: A Hopewell Eart
hworks Daybook and Other Essays (Long Road Press 2024)\, asks how we can r
espond authentically to these ancient Indigenous places. His characters &l
squo\;live in the world&rsquo\; and speak with what the Winnipeg Free Pres
s called &ldquo\;a tour de force of voice.&rdquo\;
\; gillian harding-russell is&
nbsp\;a Saskatchewan poet\, editor\, and reviewer. gillian harding-russell
has published five collections of poetry and eight chapbooks. Poems are f
orthcoming in The Malahat\, Queen&rsquo\;s Quarterly\, Transition\, and a
new chapbook\, A Handle on Things\, will be released by The Alfred Gustav
Press in the summer of 2026.
\; Yol
anda Hansen \;lives and writes in Treaty 4 (Regina SK) where
she works with the Saskatchewan Writers' Guild and reads all she can get h
er hands on. Her work has appeared in magazines like Briarpatch\, Deep Wil
d Journal\, MANTIS and Fieldstone Review and the anthologies I&rsquo\;ll G
et Right on It and Sublime. She shares her life with her husband\, two son
s and three rescue cats.
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bsp\;Ev Bishop \;is the 2026 RPL Writer in Residence.
\;Ev is an award-winning\, \;USA Today \;bestselling author o
f more than twenty novels. She's best known for small-town contemporary ro
mance and women's fiction\, including her \;River's Sigh B&\;B
\;series. She also writes under the pen name Toni Sheridan. A columnist fo
r almost twenty years with the \;Terrace Standard\, she's published nu
merous articles\, essays\, short stories\, and poems. \;