“A Season in Lowertown” is an award-winning collection of poems by a life-long writer and journalist. Blaikie’s poems recall the poignant demise of his marriage and the wild nightlife of the time, not only in Lowertown but also in Hull (now Gatineau), across the Ottawa River, and along the rambunctious main drag of Vanier, the working-class neighbourhood just to the east.
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Award-winning “On Small Wings” brings the reader an opportunity to reflect and contemplate on the wonders of life. Poetry is Wendy Jean MacLean’s first language where she transposes feeling into words that capture the small and monumental movements of life.
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As Di Nardo writes in this new collection, “I’ve confused the words around my house // With the words inside my head.” These poems crack the light at windows, refract the one that burns in a poet’s imagination. The invisible is made visible.
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Award winning “The Better Part of Some Time”, is the debut poetry collection of Mike Madill. With an engaging and grounded style, these poems will resonate with anyone who has struggled with depression or knows a loved one who has, and prove that, yes, the world will continue to spin, even if not as we might expect. Mike Madill shows us what it means to be human, with adversities to surmount as well as those moments worth celebrating.
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