Ledi

by Kim Trainor

Ledi describes the excavation of an Iron Age Pazyryk woman from her ice-bound grave in the steppes of Siberia. Trainor uses this burial site to undertake the emotional excavation of the death of a former lover by suicide. This book-length poem presents a compelling story in the form of an archaeologist’s notebook. Finalist for the 2019 Raymond Souster Award.

About the Artist

Kim Trainor is the granddaughter of an Irish banjo player and a Polish faller. Lives in Vancouver, ancestral, unceded homelands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Skwxwú7mesh, and səlil̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ Nations. Website: www.kimtrainor.ca