Always Now: Volume One Poetry and with what he calls

and with what he calls a ‘Polemical Conclusion’ -- a stimulating and provocative argument about the quality and direction of Canadian literature

Such a being makes us question whether we are

lived in Western Canada in her childhood

His nonfiction debut The Writing on the Wind’s Wall: Dialogues about 'Medical Assistance in Dying' is forthcoming in 2025 from The Porcupine’s Quill

Always Now: Volume One Poetry and with what he callsAlways Now, Collected Poems of Margaret Avison, encompasses in three volumes all of the published books, from Winter Sun (1960) to Concrete and Wild Carrot (2002), and is framed by a gathering of uncollected and new poems respectively. When complete, Always Now will present all of the poems, up to 2002, that Margaret Avison wishes to preserve. Volume One extends from the uncollected poems to Avisons translations of Hungarian poems, and includes Winter