[07/30/26] Lau, Grace: Be Water

Anvil Press, paperback

Publication Date: July 30, 2026

Publisher Marketing: 

Be Water is a meditation on change — on what happens when life pulls you from the city’s constant current into quieter, slower waters. In these poems, water becomes both vessel and mirror, reflecting how we adapt, how we hold grief and joy at once, and how we learn, finally, to flow.

Grace is a Hong Kong-born settler, recovering marketer, and poet based in Ontario on the traditional and Treaty territory of the Anishinabek people. Her debut collection, The Language We Were Never Taught to Speak, was a Lambda Award finalist. Find her online at @thrillandgrace.