Joan Skogan's Moving Water (Beach Holme $16.95) draws on her own years at sea to tell the story of Rose Bachmann, a woman awash in the nets of transient fishermen. It tells the story of Rose Bachmann, a woman at mid-tide in a life awash in the debris of a mysterious union, in myths both long known and newly invented, in the roughened nets of transient fisherman, in the spirit of the petroglyphs and in the magical coastline of the North Pacific. It is a story winding its way toward the "I", a story which begins with a rebellious youth, grows to take in a wordless marriage, and finally opens to engulf the Russian, Polish and Canadian fishing and cargo ship crews that populate a life dedicated to propulsion, and discovery. It is a quest which roams the swelling waves of personal history and of many of the world's unfathomable seas, at once, as the title suggests, constantly in motion, and yet serenely still. For Rose finds herself at rest in the rock form of a petroglyph entitled The One Who Fell From Heaven, near Prince Rupert, B.C. and there she imagines, in a brilliant song to her past and those she has loved, voyages both real and surreal and the currents of an existence that have brought her to this place, this truth.

5.25 X 8.25 Trade paperback 200 pp ISBN 0-88878-386-8 $16.95 CDN $12.95 US