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Coyote Snow

Book Subtitle: Poems

Book Description:

Step into the wild and sacred landscape of North Central Saskatchewan through Laurie Lynn Muirhead’s emotionally charged poetry collection, Coyote Snow.

With exquisite lyricism and a reverent eye, Muirhead captures the fierce beauty and fragile rhythms of a life entwined with the land, animals, and elemental forces. These poems are both a meditation and a reckoning—where cold meets spirit, survival meets grace, and readers find themselves transformed by the quiet miracles of the natural world. Don your winter boots and prepare to journey through the frosty, organic terrain of Coyote Snow.

Laurie Lynn Muirhead’s poetry shines as a rising star in the constellation of rural Canadian literature.

 

Coyote Snow is a stirring love letter to season change, both physically and emotionally, on the sometimes stark, sometimes abundant prairie landscape. Muirhead uses her deft poetic hand to bring light to “gun-metal gray days,” and pulls our attention “like the soft/purple face/of the crocus/skyward.” This collection warms us, comfort us, and leaves us with lasting, hopeful images, like “lively yellow posies/in a coffee cup.”

– Kim Mannix, author of Confirm Humanity: Poems

 

Coyote Snow is a prayer of love to the land in all it gives and takes, to its wild creatures, and to Muirhead’s husband with whom she shares, “small dark whispers sweet as pulled taffy” and seeks shelter “when the wiles of life are just too much.” With an abundance of grace, this collection explores what binds her to the land and the land to her, inviting the reader to reflect on their place in the vastness of this land which connects us all.

I was struck by the subtle love-story thread throughout.

 – Denise Wilkinson, author of the memoir Like water to Breath

 

Simple, the way a wild rose or the cry of a killdeer is simple. A sensual mix of the mystical and the precise. The business of living: scent of birth, touch of snow.

    — Susan Musgrave, author of Hunger: The Poetry of Susan Musgrave

 

Laurie Lynn Muirhead’s poems are a journey through the seasons which inspire me to retreat into the forest and live off the land. Coyote Snow is an exciting ode to nature which demonstrates spiritual alignment and mindful connection. If you are seeking presence and simplicity, these poems will remind you of the small details in life and their significance in the bigger picture. Captured within the poems are reminders of the power of the animal world and seasonal transitions in nature. Winter imagery, timely articulation, and honest contemplation successfully convey the challenging experience of life in the Canadian prairies.

– Drew Walker, author of Confines of a Free Spirit (2020) and Closer to Closure (2025)

Author: Laurie Lynn Muirhead

Publisher: Wild Skies Press

Format: Paperback & Ebook

Paperback ISBN: 978-1-997770-01-5 | $22

E-Book ISBN: 978-1-997770-02-2 | $9.99

Size: 5.5 x 8.5 | Pages: 102

Publication Date: November 10, 2025