Books by Douglas Lochhead

Douglas Lochhead's poetry overflows with energy. Sharp observation of detail anchors his passionate sense of place, subtle irony and masterful form barely contain his uncompromising honesty, and his command of the poet's craft guides his attacks on the boundaries of meaning. In Weathers, more than ever before, he transmutes suffering and loss into a celebration of life and love. Douglas Lochhead is one of Canada's most distinguished men of letters, and Weathers presents choice selections from his work since 1985. In shaping this volume, he collaborated with David Creelman, who teaches Atlantic literature at the University of New Brunswick, Saint John. This collection shows the poet at the apex of his fifty-year writing career.

Short-listed for the 1980 Governor General's Award for poetry, High Marsh Road is a cycle of poems that reflects the moods of the great Tantramar marsh. Continuing a century-long artistic tradition begun by Charles G.D. Roberts, Douglas Lochhead has written a sequence of 122 poems marking his daily walks across this windblown terrain. Combining acute observations with personal reflections about the world beyond, High Marsh Road is an intimate account of one man's exploration of nature and the self.

Henry Alline was a self-educated 18th-century evangelist who spent most of his life as a saddle-bag preacher in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. A tireless traveller and speaker, he nonetheless managed to write a number of significant theological works which have provided the inspiration for the title poem in this collection.

Tiger in the Skull makes available for the first time in a single volume the range, substance, and variety of Lochhead's work.