Author: Clea Roberts. Published by Freehand Books, Calgary, Alberta, 2010, 1st Edition. Printed in Canada. Flat Signed by the Author. Like New Condition SOFTCOVER Book.
HERE IS WHERE WE DISEMBARK, is the debut collection by Yukon poet Clea Roberts, and she delivers a perceptive and ecological reading of the Canadian North's past and present.
There is a northerly edge to Clea Roberts' poems, and it extends past the obvious content. It has to do with exquisite frostbitten brevities; it has to do with imagining northern space with scrupulous musically-tuned attention; and not least, it has to do with an awareness of snow's 'convincing logic', capable of pulling you 'softly into a ditch' and sending explanations of 'eider and light.' These are poems whose delight lies in seeing, and listening, afresh.
