Paper short abstract:

Geopoetics are garnering increased attention as a methodological approach in geography. Part long-poem, part exploration of anti-colonial feminist engagement with British Columbia's second largest watershed (The Skeena River watershed), this paper explores poetry as critical ethnography.

Paper long abstract:

Geopoetics, which intersect in structural and conceptual ways with ethnographic methods, are garnering increased attention as a methodological approach in geography. Part long-poem, part exploration of geographically-informed and place-based anti-colonial feminist engagement with British Columbia's second largest watershed (The Skeena River in northwest Canada), this paper explores poetry as critical ethnography. The paper responds to calls for new modes of representing and being in the world, exploring how writing can be formalistically renovated (at the scale of letters, words, sentences, and ever paragraphs and pages) for resonance and impact, both of which have implications for considering watersheds in times of extraction and environmental devastation.