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A fourth poetry collection from an award-winning, modern feminist voice, for fans of Kate Baer and Lyndsay Rush... and anyone else who likes poetry that’s entertaining and sincere.
Make It Stop is a sharp and morbidly funny poetry collection that confronts the unbearable and then finds a way to live with it. Strimas’s poems are plainspoken but never boring as they tackle thoughts about time running out, motherhood, men, and the legacies (good and bad!) we leave for our children. Reacting to the urgencies of our time—environmental collapse, the seemingly inevitable worsening of the state politics, violence, and cultural fatigue—these poems move between the world’s external chaos and the intimate terrain of inner life. Accessible, unflinching, and brutally honest, Strimas creates small, powerful worlds where heartbreak and absurdity exist side by side, and where meaning persists despite it all.
"Meaghan Strimas's Yes or Nope is an anti-lyric collection—acerbic, awkward and aching. In vignettes that show characters in situations of disenchantment, Strimas refuses the safety of tenderness; instead she finds visceral imagery, a shift and sharp turn of phrase, and unexpected humour. These poems are a kind of sudden, bitter fiction, making poetry our of lives and moments from which others would rather look away."—Trillium Book Award for Poetry jury citation
Meaghan Strimas is the author of three poetry collections, Junkman’s Daughter, A Good Time Had by All, and Yes or Nope, which was awarded the Trillium Book Award for Poetry. She is also the editor of The Selected Gwendolyn MacEwen and the co-editor (with Priscila Uppal) of Another Dysfunctional Cancer Poetry Anthology. She is a professor at Humber Polytechnic, where she coordinates the Bachelor of Creative & Professional Writing program and the By the Lake Book Club (in partnership with the City of Toronto), and is a founding editor of the Humber Literary Review. She grew up in Owen Sound, Ontario, and lives in Hamilton, Ontario.