Emily Nielsen is the winner, of the 2018 League of Canadian Poets Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, and longlisted for the 2018 League of Canadian Poets Pat Lowther Memorial Award.

Emily Nielsen worked on her latest book of Poetry while on residence at the Narrows. Otolith -- the ear stone -- is a series of bones that help us to orient ourselves in space. In Otolith, Emily Nilsen attempts a similar feat in poetry: to turn the reader's attention to their relationship to the world, revealing an intertidal state between the rootedness of place and the uncertainty and tenuousness of human connection.

Born in the fecundity of British Columbia's coastal rainforest, these poems are full of life and decay; they carry the odours of salmon rivers and forests of fir; salal growing in the fog-bound mountain slopes.