Major Poetry Presentitation

Hello, everyone today I like to do the presentation of poet,Alison Pick. She is a Canadian novelist and poet. She has published two novels and two collections of poetry.

She was born in 1975 in Toronto, Ontario, and grew up in Kitchener. In 1999, she graduated in University of Guelph with a B.A.in psychology.

Her first book was written while living in Saskatchewan. That book  The Sweet Edge, was published in 2005 and  was a Globe and Mail Top 100 Book of that year.

The title section of Pick's poetry collection Question & Answer won the 2002 Bronwen Wallace Memorial Award for Poetry and the 2003 National Magazine Award for Poetry. The book itself was short-listed for the League of Canadian Poets Gerald  Lampert Award for best first book of poetry, and for a Newfoundland and Labrador Book Award. Pick also won the 2005 CBC Literary Award for Poetry.
She currently lives in Toronto with her husband, writer Degan Davis, and their daughter.
The poem I will read today it called Depression. 
Why I choose this one, I don't want to make everybody feel sad, but it really makes me recall my grandma who is the most important person in my life and I love her very much. She passed away already because of cancer.

Depression

Alison Pick

I come by it honestly,
an heirloom passed
from my father
and grandmother before me.

In the bed by the window
she stares at the ceiling,
pills untouched on the dresser.
Cancer uncurls in her brain.

She says she feels nothing,
the heavy deadness
which also weighs me down.

Don't worry, love, depression comes
and then goes. Soon
it will be over.

She says this to me.
And to herself.