Staff Picks for Invertebrates - Paperback

by Zoe Dickinson (Author)

Welcome to Russell Books: an indie bookstore on an island in the Pacific Ocean, where anemones dispense life advice and staff recommend books to mollusks. Staff Picks for Invertebrates, inspired by the poet's experiences over the last decade working in a large bookstore, is a love letter to books, and to people who love books. In these poems, divisions between human and non-human fall away. Staff and customers, swallows and starfish, the store itself and the books that live inside: all are part of the same family and dwell in the same fragile, radiant world.

Author Biography

Zoe Dickinson lives on the unceded lands of the Lək̓ʷəŋən peoples on Vancouver Island, where she is a manager at Russell Books and Artistic Director emerita of the Planet Earth Poetry Reading Series. Her debut full-length collection, Staff Picks for Invertebrates, is forthcoming from Guernica Editions in 2026.