The Witness Ghost Bruce McIvor —Richard Kelly Kemick

—Richard Kelly Kemick

"Readers will find these forty-plus poems insightful and accessible

Denham's timeless ethereal gaze is rooted in the mastery of poetic forms such as the sonnet and Dante's terza rima

and the ability to combine the abstract with the pragmatic in poems that shimmer like the scales of salmon he describes

Maleea Acker’s dauntless new poetry collection is crafted with emotion and bold style

The Witness Ghost Bruce McIvor —Richard Kelly KemickDescription The Witness Ghost is Tim Bowling's most unified collection of poems since his widely praised debut, Low Water Slack (Nightwood, 1995). Here, in an extended sequence of powerful elegies, he traces his feelings of loss, bewilderment and anger at the death of his father, a man who spent his working life as a salmon fisherman on British Columbia's majestic Fraser River. Borne back into a past of old wharves, boats, nets and ripening