Emily & Elspeth follows two women and their unique paths to love... and each other. Catherine McNeil's latest collection is a delightful romp through South...
Emily & Elspeth follows two women and their unique paths to love... and each other. Catherine McNeil's latest collection is a delightful romp through South America, the imagined inner-workings of Frida Kahlo's relationship(s), and Vancouver bedrooms. Through poems that flirt with the intersections of desire, art, and commitment, she pieces together Emily and Elspeth's relationship as playfully as she takes it apart. Along the way, Emily & Elspeth brings you to places both intimate and unexpected: a belly where a uterus used to be; a girl matador facing off against a bull; and "fat, honeyed days, swollen with desire" that risk being destroyed by the nefarious aims of a government spy. Weird, wonderful, and slightly dangerous, this is a queer love story that's anything but typical.
Catherine McNeil is the author of under the influence (Bedazzled Ink) 2016 which won Milieu's National Emerging Writers Competition. She has been widely published in literary magazines, including Event, Queer Chroma, Sinister Wisdom, and the Capilano Review, and in anthologies throughout Canada, the United States & England for the past thirty years. Emily & Elspeth is coming out with Dagger Editions in the fall of 2022. She lives in Halfmoon Bay, BC with her dog, Gaia and her cat, Lavender. She is also a singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist.
