Strange Animals

A Canadian grandchild of Dutch and Hungarian immigrants, Emily Vandeploeg explores issues of language, ritual, death, and identity. Strange Animals charts the author’s journey from childhood home to settling across an ocean, moving through the vagaries of modern love as she travels to new cities and a newfound maturity.

Emily Vanderploeg is a Canadian writer of poetry and fiction. Her writing has been published in both the UK and Canada, shortlisted for the Arc Poem of the Year Award, and longlisted for The Poetry’s School’s ‘Primers’ series and the Women Poets’ Prize. Emily is a Hay Festival Writer at Work and Literature Wales New Writer’s Bursary Award recipient. Her poetry pamphlet, Loose Jewels, won the 2019 Cinnamon Press Pamphlet Competition and was published in 2020. @dippy_dumpling (Twitter and Instagram)