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edition:Paperback
category: Poetry
published: Jan 1989
ISBN:9780921870043
publisher: Ronsdale Press

Abbey

Selections 1959-1989

by Lloyd Abbey

tagged: canadian
Description

This selected edition contains the strongest and most comprehensive collection of Lloyd Abbey's work to date. Writing frequently about animals and insects, Abbey takes us inside their consciousness, allowing us to see anew the world through their eyes. Author of the best-selling novel The Last Whales, Abbey is emerging as a major talent in Canadian literature.

About the Author

Lloyd Abbey

Contributor Notes

Lloyd Abbey was born in London, Ontario, in 1943, and grew up with a deep interest in wild animals, which figure largely in his writing. Educated at McMaster, Western, and the University of Toronto, he taught for many years as a professor of English literature at the University of British Columbia, specializing in the poetry of Percy Bysshe Shelley.

Abbey has published three collections of poetry, including Ronsdale's 1989 Selections: 1959–1989, which contains many of his finest poems.He has had a major success with his novel Follow the Whales, which was translated into a number of languages. He now lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, where he writes full time.

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