The 2009 Robert Kroetsch Award for Innovative Poetry Winner! Security Posture is a series of sidelong glances at bodily details, at intimacy, at forms of connection that structure lives and provide safety. Shards of fractured lyrics recombine into dense patterns of repetition and repositioning in order to register desire as well as coercion, mourning as well as doubt.

Sarah Dowling''s work has appeared or is forthcoming in The Capilano Review, Cue, Dusie, EOAGH, How2, the ixnay reader, and West Coast Line. She received an M.A. in Creative Writing from Temple University, and is currently a Ph.D. student at the University of Pennsylvania. Sarah is originally from Regina, Saskatchewan.