Contemporary Canadian poetry lacks diaries written by its best poets during a period before they became the figures we now know them to be. In Lovable, Roxanna Bennett grants us access to the shaping experiences that permeate her poetry. Poverty, sexual violence, psychosis, and illness are documented, but so is sexual liberation and exploration, the creation of agency and autonomy, and a celebration of the act of writing itself. lovable is a captivatingly mad and disabled life-record of Toronto in the early 1990s.
