Poetry Pause is the League of Canadian Poets’ daily poetry dispatch. Read “Inventory” by Kath Healing, part of the League’s Fresh Voices program.

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Inventory

By Kath Healing

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Copyright © Kath Healing

Kath Healing (they/them) is a queer, trans, and disabled poet based in Victoria, British Columbia. Their work appears or is forthcoming in The Malahat Review, PRISM international, The Fiddlehead, Grain, Contemporary Verse 2, Plenitude, Augur, and elsewhere. Winner of the 2025 Victoria Writers’ Society Poetry Contest, they write across page and stage, exploring how systems shape bodies and how language carries pressure, relation, and resistance.

Fresh Voices is a publication and workshop program created by and for the League’s associate members, curated and edited by Erin Vance.

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