Expected Shipping Date: October 5, 2026
On Remembrance Day, 2022, the author ended up in the ER with what was eventually diagnosed as blood clots. This led to a two-week hospital stay that overlooked Vancouver’s Davie Street Village and the nightlife landscapes of his youth. “Banana Bag” is the nickname medical workers give to IV bags, which are tinged yellow from electrolytes and hang above patients like banana bunches. Each bag costs $600.
Blood Clot Banana Bag delves into perceptions of luck and fortune, but also grief and survivor’s guilt, and the privilege of universal health care, all through the lens of the author’s trademark humour and exacting details. It also explores his return to Vancouver’s historic Lee Building, one of the city’s first high-rises, and offers readers a series of meditations on everything from vinyl 45 records to quicksand and Brooke Shields in The Blue Lagoon.
Billeh Nickerson is an author, editor, and educator whose previous six books include McPoems, the City of Vancouver-Book-Award-Nominated Artificial Cherry, and Duct-Taped Roses. He is also the co-editor of the ground-breaking Seminal: The Anthology of Canada’s Gay Male Poets. He is a former Associate Dean, and long-time faculty in the Creative Writing department at Kwantlen Polytechnic University in Surrey, BC.
