Brian Brett

Brian Brett lives and farms on Salt Spring Island. He is a wonderful cook and, in 1998, will hold the post of writer-in-residence for the Yukon Territory.

Titles by the Author

The Colour of Bones in a Stream

A shape change from one of Canada's best poets: long, lush lines and brim-full pages. Brett explores the edges of risk and outrage and then delivers a platter of excess in a series of poems devoted to food.

There's a dead sheep in the mud room. Outside, a raven who steals the eyes of lambs circles above the trees as a cat with bloody jaws brings his gift of feathers to the door. Brian Brett, an ungentlemanly farmer, writes of this place that is also the world – half paradise, half abattoir. He is a man with a huge appetite for words. He offers these poems as he'd offer loaves of bread, fresh, hard-crusted. We break them together and devour, our mouths warm with such a taste. – LORNA CROZIER

Poetry, 108pp, 6 × 9, paper, $13.95, ISBN 1-55039-084-8

Poems New & Selected

ISBN 1-55039-036-8


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