Rachel Robb is the winner of the 2024 CBC Poetry Prize for her poem Palimpsest County.
Toronto-based writer Rachel Robb will receive $6,000 from the Canada Council for the Arts, a two-week writing residency at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity and her poem has been published on CBC Books.
"This is a disarming poem about colonialism, climate change, and the deep, thorny love and concern that exists for this landscape — this contentiously governed land. We unanimously loved this poem, its voice, and its sentiment that, 'we could do better.'""The image of a palimpsest resonated with me as a metaphor for resistance; despite constant attempts at erasure through time, open hostility and commercialization of land, the presence of Indigenous people endures.
"I want this poem to inspire non-Indigenous people to reflect on their role in the process of reconciliation and how intertwined it is with protecting the natural world. I hope it encourages people to approach this journey with openness and love," Robb said.was a bit of an experiment for Robb, who doesn't normally write in this stream-of-consciousness style.
"When I came back, I did look at it less through an emotional lens and more through a stylistic lens, an intellectual lens, and started to rearrange a few of the order of a few of her thoughts. I needed to take that pause because initially it was a rush of a feeling and thoughts and I couldn't quite order it. So I did need to build an extra time to edit it after the fact."
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