Xénia Lucie Laffely, Mermaids (left) (2023), from Voir les chardons brûler – encore, satin and velvet, printed, quilted, and embroidered, 135 cm x 185 cm. Fluck (right) (2023), satin and velvet, printed, quilted and embroidered, 100 x 120 cm.

Adèle Barclay has received the 2016 Lit POP Award, the 2016 Walrus Poetry Prize Readers’ Choice Award, and the Fiddlehead’s 2022 Fiction Prize. They are the author of If I Were in a Cage I’d Reach Out for You, which won the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize, and Renaissance Normcore.