Listen Before Transmit

Dani Couture's latest poems are transmissions that travel across the cosmos, the spaces we live in, as well as within the more intimate distances we navigate between one another. Distances we hope to bridge with contact, often to profound or disastrous effects. With language rooted in science, sociology, memoir and aesthetics, she questions the limits of our bodies, both human and celestial. Like the subtle cues we lend one another and the hopeful messages we send into deep space, these poems broadcast our greatest aspirations and vulnerabilities.

Dani Couture is the author of three collections of poetry and the novel Algoma, which was listed as a Toronto Star Top 100 Books of 2011 and included in the The Coast's Best Books of 2011. Her poetry collection Sweet was named one of Maisy's Best Books of 2010 by Maisonneuve magazine, nominated for the Trillium Book Award for Poetry and won the ReLit Award for Poetry.

In 2011 Couture received an Honour of Distinction from the Writers' Trust of Canada's Dayne Ogilvie Prize for Emerging LGBTQ Writers. Her writing has appeared in a number of publications around the world and seven editions of Best Canadian Poetry in English.