The stories of The Lost Salt Gift of Blood are remarkably simple – a family is drawn together by shared and separate losses, a child’s reality conflicts with his parents’ memories, a young man struggles to come to terms with the loss of his father.Yet each piece of writing in this critically acclaimed collection is infused with a powerful life of its own, a precision of language and a scrupulous fidelity to the reality of time and place, of sea and Maritime farm.Focusing on the complexities and abiding mysteries at the heart of human relationships, the seven stories of The Lost Salt Gift of Blood map the close bonds and impassable chasms that lie between man and woman, parent and child.

    A collection of memories, life stories, wisdom and poetry from the perspective of one of the nations most influential First Nation's Chiefs.

    

    Lawrence, to the weird saga of Brother XII and his mystic cult on Vancouver Island.

    In The Martyrology different ways of speaking testify to a journey through different ways of being. Language is both the poet’s instructor and, through its various permutations, the dominant 'image' of the poem. The [nine] books of The Martyrology document a poet’s quest for insight into himself and his writing through scrupulous attention to the messages hidden in the morphology of his own speech.’ – Frank Davey

    In these poems we gain insight into the lives of historical figures such as Sitting Bull, Crowfoot and Gabriel Dumont. Readers will again relish this prairie journey as they are led by a poetic voice that is impossible to forget.