Beth Kope’s Latest Release
Atlas of Roots
“Atlas of Roots sees Kope re-write her identity through a re-telling of myth. The poems are a filling-in of blanks and a de-coding of childhood. It’s a naming story, an origin story, and a painful and personal archaeology. At its heart, Atlas of Roots is a riddle in which the poet both summons herself and answers herself. She tugs at the threads of her birth story while fearing it may unravel. Kope’s poems are beautifully crafted and will unravel you, thread by thread.”
—Adrienne Gruber, author of Q & A
“A brave, moving search for self and belonging. In her quest for her missing history, Kope uncovers the potency of metaphor and the healing powers of the imagination. Her explorations into the stories of fellow adoptees and the larger world of adoption ease back the curtains on a quietly fraught, widespread reality. A beautiful, complex, and gentle work of the heart.”
—Anita Lahey, author of The Last Goldfish: A True Tale of Friendship
Previous Releases
Average Height of Flight
The collection of poems followed the tail of a dog, offering meditations on the west coast landscape, grief, and wonderment. This collection takes the reader along hill climbs and forests to the solace of paths explored.
Arleen Pare said of the book “Kope uses linguistic precision and carefully considered form…while offering deep meditative space…in this book, she spreads her wings and the poetry soars”.
Falling Season
Leaf Press published her first book, Falling Season, in Fall, 2010. It details her mother’s loss of self due to an aggressive form of dementia called Lewy Body.
A BC Bookworld review described the collection as “poems of honest dismay and almost unbearable sadness (that) will surely resonate with any reader who has lost a loved one to dementia”.
Betsy Warland called it “a quietly stunning book.”
Beth Kope has also been published in a handful of chapbooks, literary magazines, and anthologies including …
2020 Sweet Water; Poems for the Watersheds, edited by Yvonne Blomer, Caitlin Press
2020 Voicing Suicide, edited by Daniel G. Scott, Ekstasis Editions
2020 Hologram for PK Page, edited by Yvonne Blomer and DC Reid
2017 Refugium Poems for the Pacific, edited by Yvonne Blomer, Caitlin Press
2001 Mocambopo Nights, edited by Patrick Lane, Ekstasis Editions