Rona Murray, one of Canada's most treasured writers, has gathered the poems of six vibrant female writers, each on the threshold of her professional literary career.

These poems come to us beautifully realized. This is the work of women who have been observing, ruminating and practising their craft for some time, perhaps sharing with only a few friends. Rona Murray has done us a great favour gathering their voices together. As I was reading this book, I sensed each poet passing over the "threshold" into our communal, poetic landscape, each one speaking her own rhythms, speaking passionately what she knows.—PATRICIA YOUNG

This is one of the best anthologies I've seen in ten years. Threshold contains work by poets with a real sense of lyric style, wit, and feeling for the small and medium-sized as well as for the large doings in the world about us.—J. MICHAEL YATES

Open this book at any page and you will find a poem worth reading. The six writers in this fine anthology may not be well known, but they are not "beginners;" they are skilled and confident and intelligent. Reading their work is, to quote Barbara Peace, like "opening silence." Rona Murray is to be congratulated for bringing together such excellent work in this collection.—LEONA GOM

Poetry, 148 pp, 6 × 9
ISBN 1-55039-092-9, paper, $14.95