Monica's Overcoat of Flesh by Geraldine Clarkson Donald Gardner where he taught at the

where he taught at the University of Toronto and was writer-in-exile at the Banff Centre for the Arts

Nominy-Dominy

it is the good fortune of Darcy’s poems to find the globe dropping unbidden into their palms

full of wisdom and wry humor” (Irish Literary Supplement

'Bill Manhire was New Zealand's first poet laureate

Monica's Overcoat of Flesh by Geraldine Clarkson Donald Gardner where he taught at theThis remarkable debut collection from Geraldine Clarkson is an exploration of enclosure and freedom, of what is life affirming and what is life suppressing, of emptiness and profusion, of silence and music, and of the impermanence and wonder of the flesh. These poems contain the uncontainable; spellbound and courageous, they roam from South American monasteries to the shorelines of memory and the truth towers of the self, surveying matters of faith,