Desire Never Leaves.

Desire Never Leaves

Tim Lilburn

Wilfrid Laurier University Press 

Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, N2L 3C5

0889205140, $14.95 www.wlupress.wlu.ca

Selected and with an accompanying introduction by Alison Calder (winner of the Bronwen Wallace memorial Award for Poetry in 2004, co-editor of 'History, Literature, and the Writing of the Canadian Prairies, and an instructor at the University of Manitoba), "Desire Never Leaves: The Poetry Of Tim Lilburn" showcases a unique and accomplished voice Canadian poetry. Tim Lilburn's verse reflect a contemplative and questioning approach to humanity's relationship with nature, as well as the relationship of the artist to the Divine. "Desire Never Leaves" is a welcome and strongly recommended introduction to one of Canada's best poets. 'In The Hills, Watching': Among the nerved grass, thrones,/dominions of grass, in chokecherry dewlapped hills,/hills buffalo-shouldered with shag of pulsed heat, meek hills,/sandhills of rose-hip and aster, in the philanthropic silence/the frail piston of all,/in hill heat, lying down in the nearness of deer./All knowing darkens as it builds./The grass is a mirror that clouds as the bright land goes in./You stay in the night, you squat in the hills in the cave of night. Wait./Above, luminous rubble, torn webs of radio signals./Below, stone scrapers, neck bone of a deer, salt beds./The world is ending.