Floating is Everything Thomas Bevan Prize(s): Long-listed Al and Eurithe

Prize(s): Long-listed Al and Eurithe Purdy Poetry Prize (2025)

Short-listed Gerald Lampert Memorial Award (2016)

These characters and their stories will linger with readers

but they’re still important

pure beauty of these poems will resonate with you long after your first (and second

Floating is Everything Thomas Bevan Prize(s): Long-listed Al and EuritheDescription Sheryda Warrener's second poetry collection touches on the illusion of remaining grounded and a sense of belonging. A retired cosmonaut returns from a record breaking 438 days in space and attempts to re immerse himself in the world. One speaker considers reinvention from the top floor of the World's Tallest building; another, our complicated future from Reykjavik, post eruption of Eyjafjallajkull. Confessions and aspirations suspend in