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Beth Kope, Learning Services, DRC

Biography:

Beth Kope has lived in Alberta, Quebec and Australia, has travelled extensively and has called Victoria BC home for over twenty years. She has worked in education at all levels, research and editing as a contract writer, and now supports students at Camosun College through the Disability Resource Centre. She has been previously published in anthologies and literary magazines. The Average height of flight is her second book of poetry. A play is currently in the works.

Published works

The Average Height of Flight by Beth Kope
Call Number: Lansdowne PS 8621 O68 A6 2015
Publication Date: 2015
The poems in AVERAGE HEIGHT OF FLIGHT are founded in the landscape of coastal BC, built on the losses within the narrator's life in counterpoint to her walks in the natural world. In forests with her dog, along watersheds and hill climbs, Beth Kope goes off trail to find inspiration and time for meditation. She observes as the landscapes change with storms blowing through, absorbs the names of plants, finds sustained comfort whatever the season: crisp, clear days, rain is fine, or thesnow that reveals the other creatures that share her routes. Kope invites the reader to join her on these walks and meditations on grief. The metre of feet and heartbeat creates a cadence of solace, but lovingly follows the nose of a dog.