Author: Pam Galloway. Published by Ekstasis Editions Canada Ltd., Victoria, BC., 2006, 1st Edition. Flat Signed by the Author on title page. Printed in Canada. Like New Condition SOFTCOVER Book. 85 pages.
PARALLEL LINES, is Five Thousand Miles reaching across vast distances in time and place, from 19th century industrial England to 21st century coastal BC, unfolding a memoir in poetry that explores the loss, discovery and longing that is the immigrant experience.
Galloway summons her ancestors from their work and play. We meet them trudging along canal banks, assisting at a birth, joining a sing-song at the pub. Their memory persists, reaching forward to a schoolgirl's skipping game shared across three centuries, their presence resounding through the landscape of the new world: forest, ocean and "the vast, lilac-washed and vibrant sky."
