About the Book
If you’ve ever wanted “to read with the page turned/upside-down, craving a different
perspective,” you’ll want to enter Unfamiliar Weather, a world of beauty and menace,
where “electricity floats just above the surface/of events, phosphorescent/as the ghosts of
jellyfish.” Beneath the glittering glaciers, you can hear the sound of boulders shifting “like knuckles cracking before a fight,” and witness a wind storm that threatens to turn loose the “wilderness waiting in everything,” revealing the bare terrain of human isolation. In this turbulent, unpredictable climate, Chris Hutchinson’s deft, intelligent poems explore our place in the world, our relationships to nature, to each other, to language, and to art.

About the Author
Chris Hutchinson is the winner of the 2003 Earle Birney Prize for Poetry. His work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies across Canada, including Breathing Fire 2. Unfamiliar Weather is his first book. Chris Hutchinson lives in Vancouver.