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Sheriff Whelchan finds two men hanging in the tall tree and sets about unravelling the mystery.

From a master poet, meditative lines running like veins through the dark grace of being alive.

Virtuosic poems tracking two intertwined themes: the breakdown of an obsessive love affair and the vicissitudes of middle age.

Winner of the 2006 A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry and shortlisted for the McAuslan First Book Prize (Quebec Writers' Federation).

Jane Graham, unmarried mother, tells of trying to bring up her son, David, as normally as possible, but with the tension created for her by knowing that his father may try to claim him.

From acclaimed fiction writer and playwright Kate Cayley—poems that illuminate the deep strangeness of the familiar.

Much of this poised and luminous book is rooted in an idea of epiphany, an aesthetic of everyday incarnation; not the sudden and profound manifestation of essence or meaning, but the smaller steps

Poems about the unexpected and often wry coincidences language lends to life.

Reading John Reibetanz, one is struck with the way language, closely attended to, kept oiled and sharp, can give experience back its bite.

Mother of Robert Holmes a` Court recounts her life.

Shortlisted for the 2007 Trillium Book Award for Poetry Ecologically aware poems, hardwired to the intellect and the heart in equal measure.

No postmodern gimmickry, no tricks except all the old ones that every good poet must learn: these lucid, evocative poems put the reader so clearly in the picture that you taste the blackberries of

He loved her twenty years ago and believed he knew her every flaw, but he cannot believe she would kill her own child.

A turbulent, celebratory flight from an accomplished witness and journeyman.

A book of lyrics, fragmented, extended, and recovered, which read as a single long poem.