Lockers Are for Bearcats Only

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Lockers Are for Bearcats Only

By (author): Mallory Tater

The poems in Mallory Tater’s Lockers Are for Bearcats Only spill out from the confluence of grief and water. After losing one of her closest friends, the poet began swimming laps—part meditation, part therapy, part escapism—immersed in the depths of the public pool. There, she found herself haunted by the strange tension between fitness / surrender and memory / motion where ghosts of girlhood, catholicism, and addiction rose to the surface. These themes haunt Lockers Are for Bearcats Only – a tender, unguarded exploration of loss, embodiment, and the currents that carry us through life with and without those who shaped us.

AUTHOR

Mallory Tater

MALLORY TATER is a writer from the traditional, unceded territories of the Algonquin Anishnaabeg Nation (Ottawa). Mallory’s poetry and fiction have been published in literary magazines across Canada such as Room, CV2, The Malahat Review, The Fiddlehead, The New Quarterly, Carousel, Prism International and Arc Magazine. She was shortlisted for Arc Magazine‘s 2015 Poem of The Year Contest, The Malahat Review‘s 2016 Far Horizon’s Contest and Room Magazine‘s 2016 Fiction and Poetry Prizes. She was the recipient of CV2‘s 2016 Young Buck Poetry Prize. She is the publisher of Rahila’s Ghost Press, a poetry chapbook press slated to release their first print run Fall 2017.

Reviews

The poems in Mallory Taters Lockers Are for Bearcats Only spill out from the confluence of grief and water After losing one of her closest friends the poet began swimming lapspart meditation part therapy part escapismimmersed in the depths of the public pool There she found herself haunted by the strange tension between fitness surrender and memory motion where ghosts of girlhood catholicism and addiction rose to the surface These themes haunt Lockers Are for Bearcats Only a tender unguarded exploration of loss embodiment and the currents that carry us through life with and without those who shaped us