Salvage is a beautifully crafted new book of poems. It opens with a signpost alerting the reader to “Poems about Loss/ Next 100 Pages,” poems about loved ones, relationships, innocence, faith – all gone. But paradoxically people and events in Michael Crummey’s embrace are too vivid to fade away. Summer and winter visits to a Finnish cemetery in Northern Ontario, the aftermath of a mysterious act of arson in Kingston, Ontario, a run around fogged-in Quidi Vidi Lake, St. John’s, Newfoundland – these experiences and others are rendered indelible in spare, luminous poems infused with conscience and heightened attention. Michael Crummey will break your heart and mend it too.

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Michael Crummey is the author of three books of poetry, Arguments with Gravity, winner of the Writer’s Alliance of Newfoundland and Labrador Book Award for Poetry, Hard Light, and, most recently, Salvage. He has also published a book of short stories, Flesh & Blood; two acclaimed, bestselling novels, River Thieves and The Wreckage; and collaborated with photographer Greg Locke on Newfoundland: Journey into a Lost Nation. He lives in St. John’s, Newfoundland.

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