Heather Island

by Joan McBreen

Through their simple, plain-spoken respect for the ordinary forces of the landscape she loves - for its fauna and flora, its 'season of stillness' or its 'disconsolate cry of the lost' - the poems in Joan McBreen's quietly lyrical fourth collection compose a settlement for the heart, even a site for soul-pondering. In brief elegies and celebrations her poems address losses, local phenomena, familial transitions, fashioning language-moments of subdued...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1907056017
• ISBN13: 9781907056017
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: Salmon Poetry
• Length: 53 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.2" x 8.0"