What You Did Is All It Ever Means
COLE MASH
What You Did Is All It Ever Means is a tender, heartwarming, and emotionally intelligent collection of storytelling in verse. Merging experiences of childhood and parenthood into a fluent voice chronicling the cycle of life, Cole Mash imbues complex themes of loss, family, friendship, and ecological grief with philosophical edge and wit. This could be read as a sequence of poems about death and yet each one exudes vibrancy, resilience, and a love of life.
—Klara du Plessis, author of Ekke and Hell Light Flesh
published October 2021 in a print run of 100 copies
ISBN 978-1-9994276-5-8
Cole Mash is a poet, scholar, and writer who lives on unceded Syilx-Okanagan territory in Kelowna, BC. Cole is a performance poet and has performed locally and nationally for 10 years. He is the Co-Executive Director of non-profit arts organization Inspired Word Café. He teaches sessionally at UBC Okanagan and Okanagan College, and is currently pursuing a PhD at SFU in English. His poetry has been published in Forget Magazine, The Eunoia Review, Papershell, and his critical work has been published in Scholarly and Research Communication. He has a wonderful partner, four kiddos, and two kitties whom he loves all the way to the bottom.