This Wound is a World

Billy-Ray Belcourt is a Cree poet and writer from the Driftpile Cree Nation in Alberta, Canada. His debut poetry collection This Wound is a World (2017) won the Griffin Poetry Prize for a Canadian poet in 2018, making him the youngest poet ever to win the prize. The collection is a raw and formally inventive exploration of queer Indigenous experience, grief, desire, and the body. Read more →