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With compassion, humour and sharp-eyed irreverence, Ronna Bloom's work has made a significant impact on Canadian poetry. A Possible Trust is selected from her work to date.
Bloom writes concisely of the precarious, the ephemeral, the epic, and of the fragility and determination of people in daily life and extraordinary health crises. She is attentive to suffering, as well as to spontaneous connections and gestures of love. Her poetry has been used by teachers, architects, spiritual leaders, and in hospitals across Canada. This is poetry engaged with spontaneity, presence, work, and health care. There is a tenderness here where living matters, as does dying, a valuing of the incident, the encounter, the unexpected, the sorrow and the bowl-me-over delight.
Bloom speaks to us about how vulnerability, suffering, and the release into joy, can combine as an ongoing, never-ending life practice. She mines her own experience while looking out into the world with awareness, empathy and the willingness to risk being wide open. These poems stand firm with readers.
Editor and poet Phil Hall's Introduction "To Lead by Crying" argues for a poetics of empathy, and is an enthusiastic retrospective of Bloom's work. In Ronna Bloom's Afterword, she traces the relevance of photography, psychotherapy, and meditation in her work. Defiant, comical, revealing, impolite yet respectful, A Possible Trust is a retrospective and celebration.
A Possible Trust is a selection of Ronna Bloom's poetry by poet and editor Phil Hall. The book includes an introduction by Hall, and an afterword by Bloom that traces the relevance of photography, psychotherapy, and meditation in her work.
• representations of illness and aging
• Ronna Bloom is a psychotherapist, so there may be an expanded audience in the field of health care and wellness, spirituality, meditation
• She was poet in residence at Sinai Health from 2012-2019 (Toronto)
• poetry engaged with spontaneity, spirituality, work, health care via the raw honesty of one plain-speaking woman.
• Bloom's poem "The City" was painted by PLANT Architects 30 metres wide on King Street in Toronto for the summer of 2018. It was part of the King Street pilot project (transit corridor)
Bloom writes concisely of the precarious, the ephemeral, the epic, and of the fragility and determination of people in daily life and extraordinary health crises. She is attentive to suffering, as well as to spontaneous connections and gestures of love. Her poetry has been used by teachers, architects, spiritual leaders, and in hospitals across Canada. This is poetry engaged with spontaneity, presence, work, and health care. There is a tenderness here where living matters, as does dying, a valuing of the incident, the encounter, the unexpected, the sorrow and the bowl-me-over delight.
Bloom speaks to us about how vulnerability, suffering, and the release into joy, can combine as an ongoing, never-ending life practice. She mines her own experience while looking out into the world with awareness, empathy and the willingness to risk being wide open. These poems stand firm with readers.
Editor and poet Phil Hall's Introduction "To Lead by Crying" argues for a poetics of empathy, and is an enthusiastic retrospective of Bloom's work. In Ronna Bloom's Afterword, she traces the relevance of photography, psychotherapy, and meditation in her work. Defiant, comical, revealing, impolite yet respectful, A Possible Trust is a retrospective and celebration.
A Possible Trust is a selection of Ronna Bloom's poetry by poet and editor Phil Hall. The book includes an introduction by Hall, and an afterword by Bloom that traces the relevance of photography, psychotherapy, and meditation in her work.
• representations of illness and aging
• Ronna Bloom is a psychotherapist, so there may be an expanded audience in the field of health care and wellness, spirituality, meditation
• She was poet in residence at Sinai Health from 2012-2019 (Toronto)
• poetry engaged with spontaneity, spirituality, work, health care via the raw honesty of one plain-speaking woman.
• Bloom's poem "The City" was painted by PLANT Architects 30 metres wide on King Street in Toronto for the summer of 2018. It was part of the King Street pilot project (transit corridor)
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