REGINA — Queer artist Zachari Logan has launched a new poetry collection, Green.
Green is based upon Logan’s enhancement with the world and his rumination on the place of humans.
“[Our] relationship to the world, how we live in it and how that impacts us, and all the other beings that live in the world with us,” he said.
The poems include green sketches related to Logan’s experiences and time spent travelling from Saskatchewan to Italy, drawing with a sketchbook for five years.
Logan said a lot of the poems reflect politics, ecology and queerness.
As a queer person himself, Logan feels not everyone has opportunities to express themselves.
“There are people being silenced south of the border in terms of trans rights and people of colour. It’s just shocking.”
Logan’s passion for writing poems came after the passing of his father.
“I had always been able to express myself visually. And I just had a complete block when that happened.”
Logan decided to start writing and wrote his first collective poem, A Eulogy for the Buoyant, in 2010.
“There's something about poetry that is both very immediate and very visual to me, and so it feels to me as a form of creative expression.”
Since then, Logan has also published another collective poem, A Natural History of Unnatural Things.
Logan hopes anyone reading his new collective poems takes away seeing something of the current world, like the colour green.
“[Green] can be both unsettling and grounding at the same time, which sort of beats us back to thinking about our own body and again our place in this world.”
Looking ahead, Logan is interested in continuing to write new poems.
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