Physics Is How

Mia Anderson has published four books of poetry, three in Canada—Appetite (Brick Books, 1988), Chateau Puits ’81 (Oolichan Books, 1992) and Practising Death (St. Thomas Poetry Series, 1997)—and one in the United States—The Sunrise Liturgy (Wipf and Stock, 2012). Her poem “The Antenna” has just won the Montreal International Poetry Prize and, along with “Physics Is How,” will be contained in her next volume, Light Takes, coming out with Cormorant Books in the fall of 2014. She is an Anglican priest in the diocese of Quebec, and was for many years an actor, then a shepherd and grower.