• Yield

Yield

by Jaime Forsythe

April 14, 2026 | ISBN 978-1-998408-39-9 | 96 Pages

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in the garden, you intoxicated on a towel, kicking cooing in the clover, crickets insistent in skitteringheat. Letdown and foxes line the perimeter, perk their ears with appetite. Letdown and every burnerleft on high, door bolted from the inside. In her third collection, Nova Scotian poet Jaime Forsythe has created an elegant long poem with Yield. In these dreamlike lines a mother faces the postpartum void from a porous house by the ocean as the veil between land and sea, and between being lost and being found, grows thinner. With repeated waves of couplets Forsythe brings the reader unforgettable images: a pom-pom… Read more

"Jaime Forsythe understands that (im)mortality lives on the laundry line, that what is tiny and short-lived is nonetheless consequential and noteworthy, and that caring for the earth and its creatures requires a noticing limned with love. In this series of brief, exquisite couplets the poet articulates both the sublime and banal elements of new motherhood, showing us that our drive for survival doesn't always end in sleep or catharsis. Here, the borders between body and brain, land and sea, and clinical and visceral are erased and redrawn with vigilance and deep care. This sometimes perilous, often gentle attunement to the other acts as an antidote to the skittering consciousness of our moment, a deep balm of attention that insists 'I matter, but I don’t.' For those who mother, and for those who were once mothered, Yield should be required reading." – Heather Birrell, author of Born and Float and Scurry

"Jaime Forsythe's Yield is a book invested in the nature of limits and thresholds – of our environments, bodies, selves. Fittingly, the poet casts her reflection on the postpartum period against the Maritime coastline, calling attention to the porousness and mystery of these twinned liminalities. Forsythe's command of language is impressive, at once lush and controlled. This is a stunning book-length poem, deeply atmospheric and rhythmic, its images crafted with heady precision." – Annick MacAskill, author of Votive and Shadow Blight

Events with Jaime Forsythe

  • Jaime Forsythe’s previous books are I Heard Something (Anvil Press, 2018) and Sympathy Loophole (Mansfield Press, 2012). Her poetry and fiction have appeared in Arc, EVENT, Grain, The Malahat Review, Geist, The Ampersand Review and This Magazine, among others. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Guelph and currently lives close to where she grew up in Nova Scotia/Mi’kma’ki.