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Dirt of Ages by Gillian Wigmore (Nightwood $18.95)
Henry Thoreau, who wrote Walden's Pond, when asked if he ever traveled, answered that he traveled deeply within a few miles of his pond.
The travel writer Alain de Botton wrote a piece about a journey around his own small bedroom, including photographs.
Although "pulp fog solidifies into ice smog,"; forest fires turn "the sky coral crimson and rust,"; and there are "foetid fall inversions,"; Gillian Wigmore also finds her hometown in central B.C. beautiful and inspiring.
Having visited Barcelona, Florence and Switzerland in her youth, she still loves Prince George where "post flood silt height marks the walls in sedimentary layers/fish scales and weeds on the stair rung.";
In her latest collection of fifty poems, Dirt of Ages, all Wigmore's relationships are celebratory and the reader knows she'll make it to spring. She has a passion for love-making, river fishing and toughing it out through the too-harsh cold, the too-harsh winter and the relentless rains.
Wigmore's debut collection soft geography (2007) won the ReLit Prize for Poetry and was shortlisted for the Dorothy Livesay BC Book Prize."; Giving thanks through our teeth,"; she remains more than content to live in P.G., a community that serves her as "a blue print for a good life.";
978-0-88971-264-6
[BCBW 2012]
The travel writer Alain de Botton wrote a piece about a journey around his own small bedroom, including photographs.
Although "pulp fog solidifies into ice smog,"; forest fires turn "the sky coral crimson and rust,"; and there are "foetid fall inversions,"; Gillian Wigmore also finds her hometown in central B.C. beautiful and inspiring.
Having visited Barcelona, Florence and Switzerland in her youth, she still loves Prince George where "post flood silt height marks the walls in sedimentary layers/fish scales and weeds on the stair rung.";
In her latest collection of fifty poems, Dirt of Ages, all Wigmore's relationships are celebratory and the reader knows she'll make it to spring. She has a passion for love-making, river fishing and toughing it out through the too-harsh cold, the too-harsh winter and the relentless rains.
Wigmore's debut collection soft geography (2007) won the ReLit Prize for Poetry and was shortlisted for the Dorothy Livesay BC Book Prize."; Giving thanks through our teeth,"; she remains more than content to live in P.G., a community that serves her as "a blue print for a good life.";
978-0-88971-264-6
[BCBW 2012]
Submitted on September 4, 2012 in By David.
