Interference With The Hydrangea

by Mari-Lou Rowley

Revelations, unnatural acts, and errant reveries drive Mari-Lou Rowley's third poetry collection. Her title serves notice to the reader that the poetry will be imbued with the retribution of tampering with nature. These are not safe romantic lyrics or hybrid narratives; rather, they are the shadows of the unknown, the ominous acts of chance and coincidence.

144 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 2003

About the author

Mari-Lou Rowley has published nine collections of poetry, most recently Unus Mundus (Anvil Press 2013), which has been nominated for three 2014 Saskatchewan Book Awards. Transforium, an origami collaboration with visual artist Tammy Lu, was published by JackPine press in 2012. Suicide Psalms (Anvil Press 2008) was nominated for best poetry in the Sask Book Awards. Other books included CosmoSonnets (JackPine 2007) in collaboration with artist Robert McNealy, Viral Suite (Anvil Press 2004), and Interference with the Hydrangea (Thistledown Press 2003). Rowley's poetry is on university curricula in Canada, the US and Europe, and has appeared in numerous print and online journals—including the Journal of Humanistic Mathematics and on the Canadian Association of Physicists website. She was one of two writers internationally to receive a full-stipend residency at Can Serrat, Spain.

Rowley has a Master’s of Liberal Studies degree from Simon Fraser University. A science writer and avid star gazer, her favourite constellation is Orion. Her favourite cosmological phenomena are binary pulsars. She is currently pursuing an interdisciplinary PhD program in new media, neuroplasticity and empathy at the University of Saskatchewan.