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Stephen Collis is the author of over a dozen books of poetry and prose, including The Commons (2008), On the Material (2010), winner of the BC Book Prize, and Almost Islands: Phyllis Webb and the Pursuit of the Unwritten (2018) – all published by Talonbooks. A History of the Theories of Rain (2021) was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Poetry, and in 2019 Collis was the recipient of the Writers' Trust of Canada Latner Poetry Prize. The Middle is the second volume of a trilogy begun with A History of the Theories of Rain. He lives near Vancouver, on unceded Coast Salish Territory, and teaches poetry and poetics at Simon Fraser University.
""This book is a dense, rich reflection on the natural world and … human impact. Collis considers poets and their writings, as woven in … a “poetic commons,” the current and historic ecology that poets and language’s evolution share. There is sorrow, there is hope … Stephen Collis sees the interweaving, seeks understanding, and expresses awe and awareness."" – Steven Ross Smith, The British Columbia Review
