The Death of Small Creatures Barry Dempster as they had been scared

as they had been scared away by a great fire

These poems revitalize the everyday

Tsa’kwi’ah remembers the green frog

heavy with each

given from a number of viewpoints

The Death of Small Creatures Barry Dempster as they had been scaredDescription In her lyrical memoir The Death of Small Creatures, Trisha Cull lays bare her struggles with bulimia, bipolar disorder and substance abuse. Interspersing snatches of conversations, letters, blog entries and clinical notes with intimate poetic narrative, Cull evokes an accessible experience of mental illness. In The Death of Small Creatures, Cull strives to cope with her hopelessness. She finds comfort in the company of her two pet rabbits