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Internationally-acclaimed, award-winning writer
"This reminds me of Byron: the wryness, the voice, the pessimism, the humour."
OFFICIAL SELECTION:
Visible Verse Poetry Festival, Vancouver, 2013
“The thing I fear the most, I need the most
– to keep the bears at bay.”
Scroll down to watch the Official Promo Video
This is a collection of poems written by a man perched on the edge of turning 40 and looking backwards at his life in order to make sense of where he is going next.
Each poem describes a particular moment in his life, but there is no central character and the moments are not presented chronologically.
Instead, like the tangents that memory takes, each poem represents a fragment of time, and this collection, the jigsaw picture that is created once the fragments are re-arranged.
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VIDEO POEMS FROM ‘ADVANCING BACKWARDS’
