Everchild

Gwynn Scheltema – Everchild

The poems in Everchild follow a lifelong search for connection and identity, portraying a woman’s life fully lived, warts and all. From colonial Africa to rural Ontario, this debut collection explores human sensibilities: lust and love, disillusionment and hope, loss and acceptance. In Everchild, the poetry is clear-headed and clarifying, poetry that both describes experience and creates it. There’s a lifetime in these poems, stories to be told about people and places and the state of the human heart, whether grieving or skipping to the beat of its own music.