AUGUST 202096 pages | ISBN 978-1-989496-12-1 **Finalist for the 2021 Hamilton Literary Award for Poetry****Finalist for the 2021 Kerry Schooley Book Award** From industrial accidents to frozen highways, Belot charts what faces a working man in stripped-down lyric poetry. Moving to Climate Change Hours is a solemn ode to the end of oil, filled with poems that have seen it all and can acknowledge the darkness that’s coming while still finding beauty in the arched neck of a tundra swan. With a filmmaker’s sense of atmosphere and an environmentalist’s urgency, Belot’s stark lines take the reader deep into the heart… Read more
AUGUST 2020 96 pages | ISBN 978-1-989496-12-1
**Finalist for the 2021 Hamilton Literary Award for Poetry** **Finalist for the 2021 Kerry Schooley Book Award**
From industrial accidents to frozen highways, Belot charts what faces a working man in stripped-down lyric poetry. Moving to Climate Change Hours is a solemn ode to the end of oil, filled with poems that have seen it all and can acknowledge the darkness that’s coming while still finding beauty in the arched neck of a tundra swan. With a filmmaker’s sense of atmosphere and an environmentalist’s urgency, Belot’s stark lines take the reader deep into the heart of the industrial man.
“Ross Belot’s astonishing poetry steps off a moving train into the unknown. He deftly locates strangeness in the ordinary – in a sagging couch that shifts from one place to another in a room, or in a magpie that walks ‘through her body.’ We find ‘Yesterday was all chainsaw’ in poems that buzz with power, defying expectation. Moving to Climate Change Hours is a remarkable book, revealing a poet at the height of his craft.” – Anne Simpson, author of Strange Attractor
“It is wonderful to read these confident, wide-ranging poems. Belot takes recognizable subjects – work, marriage, parenting, drinking with co-workers, childhood, new love – and makes them strange again. Shifting between Canadian and American landscapes and locales, and using many different poetic forms, what emerges is a strong yet questioning personality, confronting his own life in middle age, as well as his own complicity in larger catastrophes. It’s a beautiful, intimate, ambitious, moving book written by a poet of great skill and deep feeling.” – Matthew Zapruder, author of Father’s Day
Reviews
Moving to Climate Change Hours by Ross Belot (Wolsak & Wynn/James Street North Books, 2020) (Catherine Owen, Marrow Reviews, 18/09/2020) "Belot constantly shakes up his lingual structures, sometimes tossing in a mucked-with form, then lineating skinny, stretching his prosy arms, scoring slashes, shaping triplets, slotting in a few dark photos."
Interviews
The Environmental Urbanist episode for 2021-01-05 (Jason Allen, The Environmental Urbanist, 05/01/2021) Ross Belot joins host Jason Allen to discuss his book Moving to Climate Change Hours, and how he went from oilpatch worker to ecopoet and activist.
ON LEAVING – 1ST VIDEO GALLERY POEM. (Ross Belot, Ross Belot Poet & More, 31/07/2020) Ross shares a video poem as part of his series for the Canada Council’s Digitals Originals program.
Ross Belot is a poet, photographer, documentary filmmaker, and an energy and climate change columnist. He previously worked for a major Canadian petroleum company for decades before retiring in 2014. Now he writes ecopoetics and opinion pieces about government climate change inaction. Ross was a finalist for the CBC Poetry Prize in 2016 and longlisted in 2018. In 2017, he completed an MFA at Saint Mary’s College of California. Born in Ottawa, Ross has made his home in the Golden Horseshoe since 1970.
**Finalist for the 2021 Hamilton Literary Award for Poetry****Finalist for the 2021 Kerry Schooley Book Award**
The Environmental Urbanist episode for 2021-01-05 (Jason Allen, The Environmental Urbanist, 05/01/2021)
Ross Belot joins host Jason Allen to discuss his book Moving to Climate Change Hours, and how he went from oilpatch worker to ecopoet and activist.
Moving to Climate Change Hours by Ross Belot (Wolsak & Wynn/James Street North Books, 2020) (Catherine Owen, Marrow Reviews, 18/09/2020)
"Belot constantly shakes up his lingual structures, sometimes tossing in a mucked-with form, then lineating skinny, stretching his prosy arms, scoring slashes, shaping triplets, slotting in a few dark photos."
Read Hamilton (Open Book, 27/11/2023)
A wonderful gathering of Hamilton books in one place, including Ross's poetry.
Ross Belot is a poet, photographer, documentary filmmaker, and an energy and climate change columnist. He previously worked for a major Canadian petroleum company for decades before retiring in 2014. Now he writes ecopoetics and opinion pieces about government climate change inaction. Ross was a finalist for the CBC Poetry Prize in 2016 and longlisted in 2018. In 2017, he completed an MFA at Saint Mary’s College of California. Born in Ottawa, Ross has made his home in the Golden Horseshoe since 1970.
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