Flyway: A Long Poem

View/ Open
Date
2020-08-30Author
Ens, Sarah Annette Loewen
ORCID
0000-0002-8552-1491Type
ThesisDegree Level
MastersMetadata
Show full item recordAbstract
Flyway is a long-poem articulation of home set within the Canadian landscape and told through the lens of forced migration and its corollary of trauma. Tracing the trajectory of the Russian Mennonite diaspora, Flyway examines how intergenerational upheaval generates anxieties of place which are mirrored in the human-disrupted migratory patterns of the natural world. Drawing from the rich tradition of the Canadian long poem, from my roots as a third-generation Mennonite immigrant, from eco-poetics, and from ecological research into the impact of climate change on the endangered landscape of Manitoba’s tallgrass prairie, Flyway migrates along geographical, psychological, and affective routes in an attempt to understand complexities of home.
Degree
Master of Fine Arts (M.F.A.)Department
EnglishProgram
WritingSupervisor
Benning, SheriCommittee
Lilburn, Tim; Voitkovska, Ludmilla; Lynes, JeanetteCopyright Date
November 2020Subject
long poem
Canadian long poem
eco-poetics
eco-poetry
tallgrass prairie
Canadian prairies
migration
forced migration
ornithology
trauma
WWII
Mennonite history
Canadian Mennonites