Nominated for a 1998-99 Milton Acorn People's Poetry Award. The award is given annually to the author of a work sustaining the tradition of a people's literature in Canada.

There is not a poem in this fine book that fails to move me. The book is called Belonging, but the "longing" part of that word I feel here most—the sense of a lost past that frays away, "one thread at a time." But Shreve's past is no sentimental abstraction—it is peopled with parents, with great aunts, with the fascinating woman Emma who was also the man Franklin, with the poet's sister who had cerebral palsy. Their stories do not "grab for heroics," and they compell our interest for just that reason. Articulate and beautiful, the voices in these poems are ones you will be glad to have heard.—LEONA GOM

Finely crafted poems about family relations, memory, longing, identity—the ordinary in everyday life elevated to prayer.—SUSAN MUSGRAVE

Poetry, 80 pp, 6 x 9
ISBN 1-55039-073-2, paper, $13.95