Kerosene Product Form:Paperback / softback new mothers try to navigate

new mothers try to navigate through a map-less terrain

Johnston skillfully follows the twentieth-century realist tradition of stripping stories down to details and everyday conversations that represent accurate snippets of life

–Emily Wall

This is poetry of intense

her poetry in Splitting Off

Kerosene Product Form:Paperback / softback new mothers try to navigateDescription In Kerosene, her debut book of poetry, Jamella Hagen weaves individual memories into a narrative that charts the process of orientation and growing maturity within shifting geographical locations. Patterned on the author's own experience, the collection follows the story of a young woman's life, encompassing the beauty and harshness of a childhood spent in the wilderness of Northern BC, the difficult process of adapting to city life, a