Tell: poems for a girlhood

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2016 GRIFFIN POETRY PRIZE

A collection of poems partially based on the Reena Virk murder case.

Virk was an Asian adolescent whose drowned body was found in the Gorge Waterway in a Victoria, BC suburb, in 1997. Some of the poems use found material from court transcripts. The murder made international headlines due to the viciousness employed by Virk's assailants: seven girls and one boy between the ages of 13 and 16, five of whom were ...