Building Permit: Capitol Hill

The most radical poetry prompts us to take action. This collection is a rousing to “bluntly name colonization, neoliberalism, and gentrification as instruments of power exercising control over the land.” Building Permit: Capitol Hill is a part prose poetry, part visual poetry, and part photo-collage inspired by the visual work of Roy Miki and the critical-creative lexicons of Monika Kin Gagnon. This collection uses real estate terminology, archival materials, and photographs taken in my neighborhood to reconsider the re/development of the Capitol Hill neighbourhood in Calgary.