That Light Feeling Under Your Feet

By Kayla Geitzler

Finalist for The Fiddlehead Poetry Book Prize at the New Brunswick Book Awards
Shortlisted for the Robert Kroetsch Award for Poetry at the 2019 Alberta Book Publishing Awards

That Light Feeling Under Your Feet plunges headfirst into the surreal and slogging world of cruise ship workers. These masterfully crafted poems challenge perpetuating colonial and class relations, as well as the hedonistic lifestyle attributed to the employees of these floating resorts. Kayla Geitzler's debut collection interprets isolation, alienation, racism and assimilation into the margins as inevitable consequences for the seafaring workforce of the most profitable sector of the tourism industry.

Exploring the liminal space between labour and leisure, the poems in That Light Feeling Under Your Feet are at once buoyant and weighty, with language that cuts like a keel through the sea.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1988732212
• ISBN13: 9781988732213
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: NeWest Press
• Length: 112 Pages