Centres around a heartbreak and the sense of dislocation following the end of a relationship. It describes, with Gill’s signature humour and humanity, the domestic monotony of a post-breakup malaise
Heating the Outdoors has an important, indelible connection to Gill’s Ilnu identity through its deep rootedness to place. Gill has always been a beautifully subversive writer of place. Her narratives are enfolded by their natural surroundings—though these are frequently marred by the encroachment of imperialism.
Gill’s tale of intimate, personal loss plays out upon a site of historical, communal, and cultural loss. And, as the lines between interior and exterior begin to blur, her poems become a record of the daily rituals and inside jokes, the domestic settings and ancient landscapes that inform her identity.
An award-winning author of three books of poetry in the French, Gill has gained wide popularity for her distinct style and untitled micropoems, which braid ecofeminist and decolonial critique, 90s-kid pop-culture references, and unique Quebecois profanities (sacres) evolved from the Catholic tradition. Praised as "spare, luminous. . . defiant," and "highly individual," Gill, at age 35, has been called "an icon in contemporary Quebec Indigenous poetry," by the major French-language Canadian newspaper, Le Devoir.
Key themes: nature as healing, vulnerability, respectful love, oral tradition of the Ilnu Nation.
Centres around a heartbreak and the sense of dislocation following the end of a relationship. It describes, with Gill’s signature humour and humanity, the domestic monotony of a post-breakup malaise
Heating the Outdoors has an important, indelible connection to Gill’s Ilnu identity through its deep rootedness to place. Gill has always been a beautifully subversive writer of place. Her narratives are enfolded by their natural surroundings—though these are frequently marred by the encroachment of imperialism.
Gill’s tale of intimate, personal loss plays out upon a site of historical, communal, and cultural loss. And, as the lines between interior and exterior begin to blur, her poems become a record of the daily rituals and inside jokes, the domestic settings and ancient landscapes that inform her identity.
An award-winning author of three books of poetry in the French, Gill has gained wide popularity for her distinct style and untitled micropoems, which braid ecofeminist and decolonial critique, 90s-kid pop-culture references, and unique Quebecois profanities (sacres) evolved from the Catholic tradition. Praised as "spare, luminous. . . defiant," and "highly individual," Gill, at age 35, has been called "an icon in contemporary Quebec Indigenous poetry," by the major French-language Canadian newspaper, Le Devoir.
Key themes: nature as healing, vulnerability, respectful love, oral tradition of the Ilnu Nation.