rob mclennan has written more than thirty trade books of poetry, fiction and non-fiction, he won the John Newlove Poetry Award in 2010, the Council for the Arts in Ottawa Mid-Career Award in 2014, and was longlisted for the CBC Poetry Prize in 2012 and 2017. In March, 2016, he was inducted into the VERSe Ottawa Hall of Honour. His most recent titles include the poetry collection World’s End, (ARP Books, 2023), a suite of pandemic essays, essays in the face of uncertainties (Mansfield Press, 2022) and the anthology groundworks: the best of the third decade of above/ground press 2013-2023 (Invisible Publishing, 2023). Phoebe Wang is a Toronto-based author of Admission Requirements (McClelland and Stewart, 2017), Waking Occupations, (McClelland and Stewart, 2022) and Relative to Wind: On Sailing, Craft and Community (Assembly Press, 2024.) She is currently a Writing Consultant at OCAD University. More of her work is at www.alittleprint.com. Waking Occupations is a four-part meditation on what it means to live on occupied land and in colonial time. In a series of aubades and elegies, the subject of these poems considers her commitments, complicities and exclusions. She searches for the figure of the female artist as a time travelling women through the gallery of memory, encountering her mother, and the objects and works of art that hold us accountable. Waking Occupations considers what we carry from previous generations and the cyclical nature of the work that uplifts us.