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For Your Safety Please Hold On is a truly remarkable first poetry collection from debut talent Kayla Czaga. Her poems are already making waves—several from this collection have received award attention, including: The Fiddlehead 's 23rd annual Ralph Gustafson Poetry Prize, The Malahat Review 's 2012 Far Horizon's Award for Poetry and an Editor's Choice Award in ARC Poetry Magazine' s 2012 Poem of the Year Contest. They have also been shortlisted for The New Quarterly 's 2013 Occasional Verse Contest, longlisted for CBC's 2013 Canada Writes Poetry Contest and have appeared in literary publications across North America. The poems in For Your Safety Please Hold On move in thematic focus from family, to girlhood, to adulthood, each permeated by Czaga's lively voice and quick-witted, playful language. They test the line between honest humour and bitter reality in a sophisticated, incisive manner that tugs at the gut and feels true. The linguistic hopscotch of Czaga's poems about girlhood is often beautifully juxtaposed with feelings of menace or a first taste of smothering expectations—"She sits. She sips her bright pink fingers. / She slips into smart short haircuts, yes, / she

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Author

Kayla Czaga

Publisher

Harbour Publishing Co. Ltd.

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9780889710856

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Humanities

Rating

4.36 / 5 (77 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14