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Libraries

Emily Isaacson is a Canadian poet and author of over twenty books whose work has reached readers in more than forty-five countries, with over 2.7 million visits across her websites. Writing in a lyrical tradition often compared to Tennyson, her poetry is shaped by faith, landscape, and disciplined attention to form, with a sustained focus on devotional and nature-based themes.
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Her landmark collection The Fleur-de-lis—a three-volume work of over 800 poems—stands as a defining achievement in her body of work, notable for its scale, formal consistency, and unified spiritual vision. The collection draws together years of poetic development, establishing Isaacson as a distinctive voice working at the intersection of faith, symbolism, and the natural world.
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Alongside her print work, Isaacson has developed an ongoing body of multimedia poetry, translating her writing into cinematic and visual forms. Her recent project, Storm Watcher, exemplifies this approach—pairing poetry with imagery to explore endurance, voice, and inner storms evidenced as poetic form. Director of the Wild Lily Institute in British Columbia, her work brings together poetry, theology, and the healing arts in a unified literary practice grounded in place and reflection.

Overdrive
Books by Emily Isaacson and Lilith Street are available on Overdrive for libraries to purchase.
