Strike/Slip

In this strong new collection from one of our most celebrated poets, Don McKay walks the strike-slip fault between poetry and landscape; sticks its strange nose into the cold silence of geologic time; meditates on marble, quartz, and gneiss; attends to the songs of ravens and thrushes and to the clamour of the industrialized bush.

Don McKay’s work has received national acclaim and such honours as two Governor General’s Awards for Poetry. He has also been shortlisted twice for the Griffin Poetry Prize, most recently for Camber: Selected Poems. He lives in British Columbia.

Astonished

3

(1)

Petrified

4

(3)

Loss Creek

7

(1)

Precambrian Shield

8

(2)

Song of the Saxifrage to the Rock

10

(1)

Alluvium

11

(1)

Pond

12

(2)

Devonian

14

(1)

Quartz Crystal

15

(4)

Waiting for Shay

19

(3)

Stumpage

22

(1)

The Canoe People

23

(2)

Song for the Song of the Chipping Sparrow

25

(1)

First Philosophies

26

(1)

Song for the Songs of the Common Raven

27

(1)

Specific Gravities: #76 (Marble)

28

(5)

``Stress, Shear, and Strain Theories of Failure''

33

(1)

Utter

34

(1)

Varves

35

(2)

Abandoned Cable

37

(1)

Gneiss

38

(2)

Apostrophe

40

(2)

Full Moon, Campbell River

42

(1)

Philosopher's Stone

43

(4)

Horse Pull

47

(2)

Ken

49

(1)

Apres Chainsaw

50

(1)

Hiking with my shadow

51

(1)

Solo

52

(1)

Vespers

53

(4)

As if spirit, as if soul

57

(3)

Dipper at Parkinson Creek

60

(1)

Song for the Songs of the Fallen Leaves

61

(1)

Ascent with Thrushes

62

(2)

Pine Siskins

64

(1)

Deep Midwinter

65

(1)

In-Aornis

66

(1)

Look at me, world

67

(4)

Some Last Requests

71

(4)

Notes

75

(3)

Acknowledgements

78

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