Niagara on the Lake, Ontario
Karen Enns grew up in Niagra on the Lake. Her poetry has appeared in The Fiddlehead, The Antigonish Review, Grain Magazine, PRISM international and The Malahat Review.
That Other Beauty ranges across memories of a farm childhood, and further back, to the Mennonite exodus from Russia. We encounter immigrants, furnace repairmen and grocers, dead cats, a raven lifting into “the clear, bright density of rain.” Enns meditates on Bach, on solitude, and on exile both accidental and imposed, weaving darkness and light with great fidelity and authority.
Cover art: Beyond Us All by Lorraine Thorarinson Betts, 2008
Karen Enns reads That Other Beauty from That Other Beauty on Audioboo
Poetry Month: Karen Enns - That Other Beauty - at The Toronto Quarterly
Honey days of times past (Saskatoon StarPhoenix, October 30, 2010)