Five Winter Walks
Matthew Hollett
$20 | Published June 2025.
6" x 9.25", 16pp.
Matthew Hollett’s Five Winter Walks brings a meditative curiosity and precise reportage to the experience of being a human animal in the anthropocene. Surprising imagery and crisp economy of language create a captivating perspective which redefines urban landscapes–shapes which otherwise risk becoming mundane in their familiarity–and offers a beginner’s mind for perceiving the world around us. Attuned to the act of deep listening and relationality–noticing “Wind you can lean on”–Hollett smooths the boundaries between the inner and outer, and champions the writerly pursuit to chronicle our world so we might better understand our own place within it.
—Jaz Papdoloulos
Details
Hand-set in Monotype Deepdene, with some old wood type on the title page. Printed on Crane Lettra with a wrapper of Arturo Artistico. The edition of 60 copies was set, proofed, printed & bound by students of Okanagan College’s Diploma in Writing & Publishing.
The OC crew this year included: Leighann Darville, Charlie Dionne, Madison Overend, Alice Stade, & Jason Dewinetz.
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Matthew Hollett
Matthew Hollett is a writer and photographer in St. John’s, Newfoundland (Ktaqmkuk). His work explores landscape and memory through photography, writing and walking. Optic Nerve, a collection of poems about photography and visual perception, was published by Brick Books in 2023. It was shortlisted for the J.M. Abraham Poetry Award, and longlisted for the BMO Winterset Award. Matthew won the 2020 CBC Poetry Prize, and has previously received the NLCU Fresh Fish Award for Emerging Writers and The Fiddlehead’s Ralph Gustafson Prize for Best Poem. He is a graduate of the MFA program at NSCAD University.
