p a u s e by J.R. Carpenter
Broken Sleep Books
Published 31st January 2026
p a u s e. by J. R. Carpenter is an expansive, durational meditation on land, language, and attention, unfolding through the sensory and political textures of Treaty 6 Territory. Informed by Indigenous thought, ecological intimacy, and the formal constraints of fragmentation, the work balances lyric perception with reflective rigor. Carpenter maps the rhythms of walking, listening, and witnessing across shifting seasons, while attending closely to the relational histories and linguistic specificities of place. Both a poetics and an ethics, p a u s e. offers a sustained practice of attunement.
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