Orphic Politics

A new collection by the winner of the Governor General's Award for Poetry. Tim Lilburn's award-winning work has observed the natural world with an intensity of seeing and a reverence that shifts the way we understand our lives. Now, in his brilliant new collection of poems, Lilburn has turned his meticulous, unerring eye to an intimate, utterly compelling exploration of the body's fall into illness. These haunting poems take the reader below the surface of things into a peculiar world of personal and social alteration. Its incantatory insistence and its shocking imagistic leaps make the poetry a sustained act of therapy, a ritual instrument for change. From the Trade Paperback edition.

Tim Lilburn’s six previous poetry collections include Kill-site, winner of the Governor General’s Award, and To the River, winner of the Saskatchewan Book Award for Book of the Year. His poems have been widely anthologized. He lives in Victoria, where he teaches at the University of Victoria.