Camber

The poetry of Don McKay is renowned for its piquant wit, lyric emotion, and pitch-perfect vernacular music. His work has received national acclaim and the recognition of many awards, including the Governor General's Award for Poetry, which he has won twice, and, most recently, from the prestigious and internationally known Griffin Poetry Prize, for which his most recent book was a finalist. Camberis the lilt in the physics of flight, the anti-gravitational alchemy of both wings and poetry. It is also at the heart of the poetry of Don McKay. Spanning three decades, and drawing on all of McKay's major collections, this selection distills the essence of his craft and provides an overview of, and an ideal introduction to, the work to date of one of Canada's most celebrated poets.

<b>Don McKay</b> has published nine books of poetry, including <i>Birding, or desire</i> (1983), <i>Sanding Down This Rocking Chair on a Windy Night </i>(1987), <i>Night Field</i> (1991), <i>Apparatus </i>(1997), and <i>Another Gravity </i>(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.