You Are Enough: Love Poems for the End of the World

About this book

Finalist for the 2019 Indigenous Voices Award for Published Poetry in English. In his debut poetry collection you are enough: love poems for the end of the world Smokii Sumac has curated a selection of works from two years of a near daily poetry practice. What began as a sort of daily online poetry journal using the hashtag #haikuaday has since transformed into a brilliant collection of storytelling drawing upon Indigenous literary practice and inspired by works like Billy Ray Belcourts This Wound is a World and Tenille Campbells #IndianLovePoems. With sections dealing with recovery from addiction and depression coming home through ceremony and of course as the title suggests on falling in and out of love Sumac brings the reader through two years of life as a Ktunaxa Two-Spirit person. This collection addresses the grief of being an Indigenous person in Canada shares timely (and sometimes hilarious) musings on consent sex and gender and through it all helps us come to know that we are enough just as we are.