Shortlisted, Dayne Ogilvie Prize for LGBTQ2S+ Emerging Writers

In a world where the innate need for “better” is both trauma and treatment, what does sobriety and recovery really mean?

Nightnursing explores memory, care, and the mercurial nature of recovery from a Queer and Black perspective. At once intimate and adventurous, Nightnursing embraces uncertainty and the beauty of unfinished work, questioning the systems that define wellness and inclusion.

Reid’s experimental and playful poems drift through the haze of time, pressing fists to the boundaries of language and the self, and simultanteously running towards and away from reality.