B.C. writer experiments with outdoor slumber for poetry inspiration

Donna Kane, a resident in Rolla in northeastern B.C., has penned numerous poems that draw inspiration from the starry sky above her farmhouse.

More recently, Kane — who splits her time between Rolla and Halifax — has embarked on a unique writing endeavour, which entails relocating her bed from her bedroom to the outdoors.

The project also involves interviewing others who sleep outdoors, and incorporating their experiences to her work. 

Among her poems is On Visible Light, published in the Scientific American’s July 2022 issue alongside scholarly research on the thermodynamic limit, momentum computing and interstellar space. Her work has also been published in Science Today and The Walrus.

In an interview with Daybreak North‘s Carolina de Ryk, Kane shared what it’s like to

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