A book of poems by Cory Lavender, cover image by Jessica Hiemstra. About the book: The larger -than-life characters and stories that tumble out of Come One Thing Another asserts the experiences of generations of Lavenders and Roys as a kind of rural epic, transposing ordinary occurrences into the ageless framework of myth and its preoccupation with metamorphosis — with shifting identities and values and the persistent transformations of people and places. Colloquial, humourous, exuberant, shot through with reverie, these poems are carefully-crafted oratory, love songs for a vibrant heritage.

Cory Lavender is a poet of African Nova Scotian and European descent living in Mi’kma’ki. His work has appeared in journals such as Grain, Prairie Fire, Riddle Fence, The Fiddlehead, and in Watch Your Head: Writers and Artists Respond to the Climate Crisis (2020).