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TIM LILBURN is the author of seven previous books of poetry, including To the River, Kill-site, and Orphic Politics. His work has received the Governor General's Award and the Saskatchewan Book of the Year Award, among other prizes. Lilburn is also the author of two essay collections, Living in the World as if It Were Home and Going Home, and edited two other collections on poetics. He teaches at the University of Victoria.
Praise for Tim Lilburn: Lilburn's work is richly figurative, but firmly rooted in colloquial speech. He is not only a virtuoso at the linguistic level, taking risks with metaphor and line, but also steeped in a metaphysics of place. -Jury citation, Governor General's Award His long dense melodic lines are full of verve and snap, offering lightning changes in register and a reluctance to leave any part of speech unturned. . . . -Globe and Mail Striking and original. . . . [Lilburn captures] the mystical and ecstatic moments when self and world are united. -Booklist Tim Lilburn brings us face to face with the beguiling, bewildering strangeness of the world. -The Fiddlehead One of our more thoughtful and inventive poets. -Quill & Quire
