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PoetrySlow Curve OutMaureen Scott Harris • Pedlar PressSlow Curve Out is a collection of meditative poems of sensory engagement with human and non-humanworlds. The poet strives to see and hear the world clearly, trusting perception and experience before idea.Alert for resonances both among things and between inner and outer worlds, the poems ask us to adjustour sense of what it is to be human, to give up our (false) separation from the rest of the living world, andto recognize and celebrate our embeddedness in the web of relationships that constitutes life on Earth.Maureen Scott Harris is a poet and essayist based in Toronto. Slow Curve Out, Harris’ third collection,is a finalist for this year’s Pat Lowther Memorial Award. Her second collection, Drowning Lessons (PedlarPress, 2004), won the Ontario Trillium Book Award for Poetry.ISBN-13: 9781897141502paperback / 96 pp5.5 x 8.5 / $20.00October 2012Key words: Canadian poetry, Eco-criticism, GlobalizationBetween Dusk and NightEmily McGiffin • Brick BooksPoems with an urgent desire to discover a way to be in right relation to other creatures and to the earthitself.“I am undone by Emily McGiffin. Her images and insights create an immaculate architecture for the heart.Sometimes I think I’ll never read a good poem again and then she comes along with a book full of them.Astonishing.” —Patrick LaneShortlisted for the 2013 Raymond Souster Award.ISBN-13: 9781926829739paperback / 88 pp6 x 9 / $19.00April 2012Emily McGiffin’s poetry has received awards from the Writer’s Trust of Canada, the Canadian AuthorsAssociation, and has twice been a finalist for the CBC Literary Awards. She was born and raised onVancouver Island and currently makes her home in northwest British Columbia where she works forSkeena Watershed Conservation Coalition.Key words: Canadian poetry, Nature, Eco-criticism, LandscapeWhiteoutGeorge Murray • ECW PressGeorge Murray’s sixth collection has been a decade in the making. At once taut, tender and terrifying,haunted and haunting, Whiteout shatters convention in the collision of order and rage, formlessness, andhard-won serenity.George Murray is the author of five previous books of poetry, including Glimpse (2010), The Rush toHere (2007), and The Hunter (2003). His work appears in magazines and anthologies in Canada, the US,Britain, Europe, and the Antipodes. He lives in St. John’s, Newfoundland, with his two sons.Key words: Canadian poetryISBN-13: 9781770410879paperback / 64 pp5.5 x 8.5 / $18.95April 20126 Literary Press Group / Congress 2013