Unabridged audio edition of the poetry chapbook Cairns by Emily Hancock (2019). Read by the author.

Poet, printer, and publisher Emily Hancock follows up her 2017 The Open Gate: New & Selected Poems with this new collection entitled Cairns. Each poem is a deeply felt encounter with presence and absence, arrivals and losses. Hancock invites us into the intimacies of light, memory, and experience. Her eye on the horizon line and her ear to the heart’s ground, the poet wayfinds through grief and gratitude, each poem a kind of marker along the path.

Recorded, produced, and mastered by Jim Plitt at JP Support Services in Nellysford, Virginia, February 2020.

14 minutes, m4b format.

Listen to two sample poems from the book: