Sonja Greckol's fourth book, Monitoring Station (University of Alberta Press 2023) enters a slipstream of space and planetary language, circling time, embodying loss and longing, generating and regenerating in a faltering climate. Orbiting through a mother’s death, a grandbaby’s birth, and a pandemic summer; these poems loop and fragment in expansive and empathetic ways.
Her third book, No Line In Time (2018) probes Greckol's prairie childhood in the Treaty 6 territory unsettling the learnings of un|settlement and winding back to Al Andalus and the launch of the Columbus. Her long poem, 'No Line In Time' won the briarpatch Magazine, Writing In the Margins Contest, 'No Line (2017). No Line In Time was listed for the Raymond P Souster Award(2018).
Skein of Days (Pedlar Press 2014) deploys a skein of newspaper and magazine headings and subheads from publications of Greckol’s own place and time, interweaving flashes of popular song titles, particles of scientific lexicon, and a moving poetic record drawn from each year’s Governor General’s Award- winning poetry book.
The poem sequences in her first book, Gravity Matters (Inanna 2009) include a fractured sonetto magistrale: 'Emilie Explains Newton to Voltaire,' described by Frank Bidart as 'haunting and monumental'.
Her work has appeared in Filling Station, Briar Patch, Rusty Toque, Literary Review of Canada, Canadian Literature, Dalhousie Review, CV2, Canadian Women’s Studies, Fiddlehead, and Matrix and most recently online at bilingual La Presa. She is the founding poetry editor for Women and Environments International and was a founding member of the Influencysalon.ca Editorial Group. She has taught college and university, studied order and disorder in jokes, done human rights and gender-based research and organizational consulting.
