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 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 consider the redevelopment of the Capitol Hill neighbourhood in Calgary.