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category: Poetry
published: Aug 2007
ISBN:9781897142288
publisher: Brindle & Glass Publishing

A Ghost in Waterloo Station

by Bert Almon

tagged: canadian
Description

The poems in A Ghost in Waterloo Station take the everyday world as their point of departure, but the place of arrival is never the shore you started from. Vivid invocations and meditations on childhood, art, and travel bring together places and people as likeable and unexpected as the wry poetic sensibility recommending them to our attention. Greece is a country where clarity / is inescapable unless it forces your lids shut. Swallows enter their nests high on the white stacked walls at Indian Lodge as if the ghost/ of a remorseful pickpocket/ were slipping a wallet/ back where it come from. There is much humour here, and warmth, combined with an awareness of loss and the weight of history—all delivered in a voice distinctive in its combination of narrative, whimsy, and psychological observation.

About the Author
Bert Almon was born during a hurricane in Port Arthur, Texas. His life has been relatively quiet ever since. He came to Canada in 1968 and now lives in Edmonton, where he teaches modern poetry and creative writing at the University of Alberta.
Editorial Review

Here is a thoughtful collection written by a mature poet who has traveled and enjoys a large enough experience to understand patterns and paradoxes that enrich life. —Prairie Fire Magazine

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