Leigh Kotsilidis

Hypotheticals

Leigh Kotsilidis

Kotsilidis's Hypotheticals is one of three debut collections published this year by Coach House, and joins a growing list of acclaimed poetic debuts in recent years from the press. Both Kate Hall (2009) and Jeramy Dodds (2008) had debut collections shortlisted for multiple awards, and both were finalists for the prestigious Griffin Prize and the Gerald Lampert Award. (Dodds also won the Trillium Award for Poetry.)Kotsilidis is currently doing an MFA in Studio Arts at Concordia University; her main focus is installation art and stop-motion animation. She will make a trailer for her own book, using her stop-motion talents.There's a current vogue for good poetry about science: we've done well with Crystallography and The Hayflick Limit, which have been popular with both poetry and science geeks.