Lim’s debut poetry book
April 25th, 2025
Natalie Lim is set to launch her debut collection of poems Elegy for Opportunity (Wolsak & Wynn $20) at SFU downtown on Saturday, May 10, 2 – 4 pm, along with special guests Mallory Tater, Tina Do and Isabella Wang will be joining Lim.
Taking its title from NASA’s rover named Opportunity, Lim’s presents love poems from a time when the world is marked by grief, through her meditations on such pop culture themes as Dungeons & Dragons and Taylor Swift’s as well as contemporary issues such as the climate crisis and more.
“Natalie Lim does something I never would have expected: she fills my heart,” says fellow poet and author, Jen Sookfong Lee, author of Superfan: How Pop Culture Broke My Heart ((M&S, 2023). “The poems in this collection are charming and colloquial, affectionate and anxious, and, most importantly, speak directly to the soft beast inside each of us that ferociously holds on to love. Elegy for Opportunity is a book for the darkest of winter nights, for those long afternoons when our brains will not stop buzzing, for friends to share as they come across lines that resonate. Beautiful, wise and full of empathy.”
ABOUT LIM
Natalie Lim is a Chinese-Canadian poet living on the unceded, traditional territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh Peoples (Vancouver, BC). In addition to full-Elegy for Opportunity, she has authored a chapbook, arrhythmia (Rahila’s Ghost Press, 2022). Winner of the 2018 CBC Poetry Prize and Room Magazine’s 2020 Emerging Writer Award, her work has been published in Arc Poetry Magazine, Best Canadian Poetry 2020 and elsewhere.
EVENT DETAILS
Date and time: Saturday, May 10, 2 – 4 pm
Location:
Simon Fraser University – Vancouver Campus
515 West Hastings Street, Vancouver
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