South Side of a Kinless River by Marilyn Dumont – CBC

Sep 27, 2024

A nuanced, relational, and community-minded new book from one of Canada’s preeminent poets.

South Side of a Kinless River wrestles with concepts of Métis identity in a nation and territory that would rather erase it. Métis identity, land loss, sexual relationships between Indigenous women and European men, and midwifery by Indigenous women of the nascent settler communities figure into these poems. They add up to a Métis woman’s prairie history, one that helps us feel the violence in how those contributions and wisdoms have been suppressed and denied. (From Brick Books)

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Marilyn Dumont is a poet of Cree Métis descent. Dumont’s other works include Green Girl Dreams Mountains, The Pemmican Eaters and A Really Good Brown Girl, is about Dumont coming to understand and embrace her Métis heritage. A Really Good Brown Girl won the 1997 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award. She lives in Edmonton.