Department of Geography and PlanningSophie has been busy working in the community over the last few years. She was the lead writer of the two-volume Art of Land-based Early Learning (a best seller in early learning circles), and the lead writer of Creative Community Engagements. She has just finished her book Interview with a River, designed to engage the Kagawong river in its own telling. Supported by the Ontario Arts Council and the Canada Council for the Arts, this geopoetic work grapples with the ecological, social, and colonial complexities of the Kagawong River.
In addition to that project, she's been included in several publications: Geopoetics in Practice (Eds: Magrane et al, Routledge), British Women Travellers (Ed: Dutta, Routeledge), and forthcoming in Performative Social Science (Ed: Jones, Routledge). Her geopoetry has appeared in The Capilano Review, Arc Poetry Magazine (where was shortlisted for the 2019 Poem of the Year), Pi Review, and Room Magazine, among others.
Through CCA funding, she's working on a new hybrid poetics project called Footnotes to the Big Story. Her solo show at 180 Projects in Sault Ste Marie -- your silence is a world for my language -- examined the links between environmental, gendered and colonial violences via the emerald ash borer. This year she's working with ECCCo (Early Childhood Creative COllaborations) and the Junction Creek Stewardship Committee in Sudbury to build ecological connections via creative inquiry, with children and families in neighbourhoods along the creek.