From one of Canada’s most acclaimed poets and the winner of the Governor General’s Award for Poetry.

This book, Don McKay’s ninth collection, practises "the dark art of reflection" – which, as one of the poems tells us, whether boldly or capriciously, could not have existed without the moon – as it moves ever more deeply into ideas of home.

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WINNER 2000 - Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry

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"He uses language with the greatest facility: a whole line or even a single word will vibrate like a tuning fork."
–Globe and Mail

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The Griffin Poetry Prize profile, jury citation, and excerpt

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Don McKay has published nine books of poetry, including Birding, or desire (1983), Sanding Down This Rocking Chair on a Windy Night (1987), Night Field (1991), Apparatus (1997), and Another Gravity (2000). He is also known as a poetry editor, and he has taught poetry in universities across the country. He presently lives in British Columbia.

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