Douglas Lochhead is one of Canada's finest poets. In celebration of
his eightieth birthday, Goose Lane Editions is releasing Weathers:
Poems New and Selected, a collection of the best of Lochhead's work
from the last fifteen years. Douglas Lochhead's poetic imagination
receives its greatest stimulus from what his senses tell him about
nature and other people, and his poetry overflows with energy.
Sharp observation of detail anchors his passionate sense of place;
subtle irony and masterful form barely contain his uncompromising
honesty and strong emotions; and his command of the poet's craft
guides his attacks on the boundaries of meaning. The contrast he
achieves between tightly controlled form and constantly moving,
dynamic imagery yields the clean, precise poetry that his readers
have valued so highly over his more than 50-year career. Lochhead
began his career in the 1940s, publishing his poems in literary
journals. His first book, The Heart is on Fire was published in
1959, and in the next two decades he published eight more books of
poetry. In 1980, his landmark collection High Marsh Road was
nominated for a Governor General's Award. In 1986, Goose Lane
Editions published Tiger in the Skull: New and Selected Poems,
1959-1986, Since that time, Douglas Lochhead has published four
major collections: Upper Cape Poems, a testament to his fascination
with the Tantramar Marsh; Homage to Henry Alline, a tribute to an
18th-century evangelist; Breakfast at Mel's, superbly crafted poems
about the magic of place, and the rewards of observation; and Cape
Enragé, poems written on the wild shore of the Bay of Fundy. In the
award-winning art book Dykelands, his austere nature poems
accompany Thaddeus Holownia's large-format photographs. He has also
published All Things Do Continue, Yes, Yes, Yes , and Black
Festival, a beautiful memorial to his wife. For Weathers, Douglas
Lochhead has collaborated with editor David Creelman, who teaches
Atlantic literature at the University of New Brunswick, Saint John.
Together, they have gathered the strongest works from Lochhead's
books, new poems published in literary journals, and previously
unpublished poems to create the quintessential collection of
Lochhead's writing.
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