women & roosters: The Playlist
women & roosters: The Playlist is here!
Fenn Stewart has curated a playlist of songs that inspired the writing of her brand new poetry collection women & roosters. Fenn has also written an introduction detailing the playlist’s origins as a soundtrack for running in the forest, with detailed notes. We hope you enjoy! Take it away Fenn!
Find the full playlist here.
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When I was writing women & roosters, and living through the stuff that it’s about, I was running a lot in the woods.* Then I got long covid in 2022, and I couldn’t run the way I wanted to (my long covid took the form of dysautonomia, tachycardia, & myositis). I kept trying to run, but it didn’t go super well (neither did I, haha). So this is my running playlist from those days — the fast days, and the slow days, and the long-covid-panic-attack days when my heart rate would hit 200 bpm.
*At the time (2020 to 2023), I was mostly running near the Musqueam reserve in Pacific Spirit Park, on Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh territory. The poems in the first part of the book take place in some other woods, further north: on Sla-dai-aich / tay’stay’ič (Denman Island), part of the unceded territories of the Pentlach, K’ómoks, Homalco, Klahoose, Qualicum, Shíshálh, Tla’amin, We Wai Kai, and Wei Wai Kum peoples.
