Perfect Weather By Jamella Hagen

Perfect Weather is a collection of poems about many things—about the destabilizing force of climate change, about the particularity of living in the Yukon, about the tender intensity of becoming a parent—but mostly it’s a book about relationships, about the fraught and sustaining nature of building connections with other people. The book opens in a space of high conflict as a wildfire marks out a pattern of relationship breakdown. Later, a fictional series about northern jobs and an interlude about the liminal days of early parenthood lead toward a space of cautious gratitude and peace.