Salvage

Salvageis 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.

<b>Michael Crummey</b> lives in St. John’s, Newfoundland. He is the author of two previous books of poetry including <i>Arguments with Gravity,</i> winner of the Writers’ Alliance of Newfoundland and Labrador Book Award for Poetry, a book of short stories, <i>Flesh & Blood;</i> and a novel, <i>River Thieves,</i> a national bestseller and a finalist for The Giller Prize.