The Nights Also

The Nights Also is filled with fearless and insightful poems that explore one woman's experience of chronic illness, shifting sexual identity, and long periods of solitude. They chronicle a building and stripping away of identity, asking who we are when we can no longer define ourselves in habitual ways. The writing is as honest as it is complex, at once deep and pithy. Anna Swanson proves in The Nights Also that she is a brave new voice in Canadian Poetry. The book is the winne…