Lorne Daniel
August 07th, 2025
After decades away from poetry, Victoria-based writer Lorne Daniel returns with What Is Broken Binds Us (University of Calgary Press $18.99), a collection that reckons with rupture—of body, family and inherited identity. Daniel sifts through personal injury, estrangement, addiction and the revelation of enslavement in his family’s past. But for every fracture, he offers a kind of quiet resilience. Daniel published four collections and co-edited the literary journal Canada Goose and the Ride Off Any Horizon anthologies (NeWest Press, 1983). He later shifted toward journalism and civic engagement, founding the Rethink Red Deer and Greater Victoria Placemaking Network. Now based in Victoria, he continues to explore the relationship between people and place, especially on the unceded territories of the lək̓ʷəŋən peoples. What Is Broken Binds Us marks his long-anticipated return to the page. 9781773856391
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