SCAR/CITYPoetry, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2025Review: ‘Another eviction season’ →SCAR/CITY asks why the housing crisis is so costly to our souls and wellbeing. These poems walk streets and take snapshots of the impact financialization of our homes has on our sense of community and belonging.Read more →Buy the book →
Is This an Illness or an Accident?Essays, Caitlin Press, 2025Review: Puncturing holes in social norms →When asked, "But where are you really from?" Daniela Elza responds with a challenge: "How much time do you have?" Is This an Illness or an Accident? is a profound exploration of the conflicts and contradictions of what it means to belong, to work and to find home.Read more →Buy the book →
slow erosionsChapbook, 2020A chapbook written in collaboration between Arlene Ang and Daniela Elza.Read more →
the broken boatNew poems, 2020In her fourth book of poetry, Elza deftly builds a raft of questions to stay afloat amidst the breakage of things. The end of a twenty-year marriage mirrors subtler fragmentations in our world. How to survive this loss of meaning, this "wintering through"? The intricacies of light, nature, water, absences glint through grief to astonish and lift the heart into understanding again; transforming and coupling the deeper self with the soulful eros/ions of our world.Read more →
milk tooth bane bonePoetry, 2013. With an introduction by Aislinn Hunter.Daniela Elza's milk tooth bane bone is a book that sweeps across the reader's consciousness like a bird's wing. The poems do something rather miraculous: fragmentary yet narrative, grounded yet mythic, they deconstruct and build simultaneously, forge and empty out meanings and images.Read more →
the weight of dewPoetry, 2012In the weight of dew, Daniela Elza's remarkably elegant debut book of poetry, we are taken on a literal, metaphorical and philosophical journey from the city, inland through (mostly) British Columbia.Read more →
the book of ItPoetry, 2011Nothing can prepare us for what is about to be experienced. In the case of creativity and imagination nothing really should. So what is a description to do? The book of it is a poetic meditation on learning and school. It is about that which cannot be named, but can be pervasive in our lives (if we let it).Read more →