Wild Echo Poetry Collection, Pamela Jane Gerrand’s first book of poetry, invites us to enter the wilderness of our undefended heart, and encounter the fierce grace that guides each of us home to ourselves. Gerrand explores themes of love and loss, frailty and resilience, illuminating the everyday and exalted moments that bring joy and meaning to our lives. Gerrand’s poems are both practical and spiritual, earthy and philosophical, rooted in the radiance of divine feminine wisdom.
Inspired by the works of Persian poets Rumi and Hafiz, and contemporary poets Mary Oliver and Maya Angelou, Gerrand’s poems are a soft place to land in a harsh world. Tender and triumphant, evocative and incandescent, her tone poems offer both reckoning and reflection. Wild Echo Poetry Collection is a deepening into the love that takes us over the threshold of our frailty and fear, to the wild horizons that shimmer with infinite possibility and raucous beauty.
About Pamela Jane Gerrand
Pamela Jane Gerrand is a poet, musician and spoken word artist. Born in Regina, Saskatchewan, her prairie roots are evident in the spaciousness at the heart of her poetry. Gerrand travels widely giving concerts, and leading workshops and retreats across Canada and the U.S.. She has performed at festivals and forums in the U.K., Sweden, France, Costa Rica and India. She lives in Stratford, Ontario, with her husband, Stephen Degenstein, and their dog Lexi.
http://www.pamelajanegerrand.com
Cover photograph: Terence Drysdale
Author photographs: Bill Chan/Mich Chiu
Don Miguel Ruiz
Wild Echo takes you on a journey to the depths of the heart, where the infinite whispers…I LOVE YOU. Pamela Jane Gerrand is a poet cantadora breathing soul into the world through the gifts of her voice and her poetry.
–Don Miguel Ruiz, Author of The Four Agreements and The Mastery of Love
James O’Dea
We are all familiar with the expression ‘on the wings of poetry’. In Pamela Jane Gerrand’s case this is especially true — not only do her words lift us upwards but each poem carries us to an aerial perspective where we see what is real and valued from the sky of spacious mind. It is here in the higher currents of spirit that our heart opens to the truth she so skillfully allows us to see for ourselves.
–James O’Dea, Author of Cultivating Peace and Soul Awakening Practice