Moosewood Sandhills

by Tim Lilburn

'Moosewood Sandhills' can be thought of as a poetic counterpart to Lilburn's seminal collection of essays, 'Living In The World As If It Were Home'. It documents his retreat to the parched scrublands of Saskatchewan, Canada; a place where 'the dead are believed to meander'. Here he 'planted thin gardens, dug a root cellar, slept in the fields under summer stars - and looked'. The poems, by turns revelatory and ecstatic, revolve around simple acts...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1999971876
• ISBN13: 9781999971878
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: Xylem Books
• Length: 68 Pages
• Weight: 0.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 5.5" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

This little book is too wonderful for words.

I do not only admire this book, but i love it deeply. The author's voice is unique. The imagry is a combination of the wilderness and modern urban consciousness. It confronts the wilderlands, the roots, of the soul; it looks back at us through the eyes of the deer, we look out at the deer from a cave dug into the side of the damp sandy earth. Radio waves jazz the air overhead. It is an experience. It is spiritual, and palpable.