Poetry Pause is the League of Canadian Poets’ daily poetry dispatch. Read “the scent of nettles” by daniela elza.

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the scent of nettles

By daniela elza

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Copyright © daniela elza

Previously published in (M)othering Anthology (Inanna Publications, 2022).

In 2024, Daniela Elza was longlisted for the CBC Poetry Prize with a sequence of poems from her sixth and forthcoming poetry collection SCAR/CITY (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2025). Her debut prose collection “Is This an Illness or an Accident?” will be published this year with Caitlin Press. Daniela is the recipient of the 2024 Colleen Thibaudeau Award for Outstanding Contribution to Poetry. 

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