Nisga'a prof and writer

Author of The Place of Scraps (winner of the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize), Un/inhabited, and Injun (winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize).

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The Place of Scraps

Talonbooks (2013)

Un/inhabited

Project Space Press (2014) / Talonbooks (2015)

Injun

Talonbooks (2016)

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“Built from a core sample of our culture’s colonialist project in language, Jordan Abel has opened a space of disruption, lament, resistance, and inquiry—a terrible, inverted singing that can undermine assumption, exposing ‘soft’ ideology. Injun isn’t a record of past wrongs, but a present tense intervention. A necessary, confrontational beauty. The country needs Injun right up in its face.” – Ken Babstock