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Di Brandt's newest book of poetry, Walking to Mojacar, will be published in Canada by Turnstone Press this fall. In October Brandt will tour Winnipeg, Calgary and Toronto.

Reviewers' comments about Walking to Mojacar:

Di Brandt has surpassed herself in this extraordinary book, which hurls itself upon our desperate environmental, emotional, spiritual condition with fury and eloquence and headlong grace. The sequence “Hymns for Detroit,” which sets German hymns the poet heard in her Mennonite farming childhood against “trans(e)lations” for that most damaged city, could make the angels weep. Everywhere,Walking to Mojacar makes us know how far we have gone toward catastrophe, and yet how much passion, imagination, intelligence, and—therefore, perhaps—hope remain. In a prose poem, Brandt asks, “Who knows what this new age will remember of us as it tells its tales and stories to its children?” May these poems be among them.

Ann Fisher-Wirth, author of Carta Marina, and coeditor of the forthcoming Ecopoetry: A Contemporary American Anthology

In Di Brandt's experiments across languages, and in the work of the translators who contribute to these pages, translation is the source of an astonishing poetics, where 'joining procedures' are a principle of invention. This is a book of connections, where cities, landscapes, languages and poetic forms intermingle. Brandt's lyric voice expands the world, revealing the gaps between languages and memories to be a space where rich dramas unfold.

Sherry Simon, author of Translating Montreal and Gender in Translation


Di Brandt writes poetry, creative essays, literary criticism and ficiton. Her award-winning poetry titles include questions i asked my mother; Agnes in the sky; Jerusalem, beloved; and Now You Care. Her new book of poetry is Walking to Mojacar, ecstatic intercultural meditations in three different landscapes, with French and Spanish translations by Charles LeBlanc and Ari Belathar, and traditional German Mennonite hymn texts (forthcoming Turnstone, Fall 2010). Di Brandt holds a Canada Research Chair in Literature and Creative Writing at Brandon University, Manitoba. Her website address is www.dibrandt.ca.