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  • Between Disappointment and Delight

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    We get only one life So precious, so fleeting Is this how I’ll spend it Scrolling, posting, retweeting? The beauty of the natural world and the ups and downs of daily life—with all its gifts and losses, fear and joy, disappointment and...


  • Burritt's Rapids and Beyond

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    In BURRITT’S RAPIDS AND BEYOND, “whatever flows, remains.” From Winnipeg, Vancouver, Montreal, and rural Ontario, Louis Contant considers his place in the world. Fireflies, whip-poor-wills, squirrels, dragonflies, waterfalls, and the soulful...


  • Journey

    an invitation to come along
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    This poetry book is a search for connection. It is a journey through the beauty and metaphor of nature, through love and letting go in relationships, through a quest for deeper spiritual meaning and a response to world events.


  • Walking Two Worlds

    Poems and Drawings
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    This book has been a profound, personal journey across time, space and dimensions. Most of the poems have been given to me directly from my Spirit Guides, their words, ideas and concepts have not been altered in anyway. My role has only been to...


  • Seventeen Breaths of Life

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    Seventeen breaths— lungs of the Earth heave again, life stirs Pause. Look at the natural world around you. Even in a busy urban setting, you can sit on a bench or lean against a tree and take in the world—even for just seventeen seconds....


  • The Wilding

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    In poems shot through with both wonder and woe, The Wilding celebrates the astonishing natural world and mourns the crises facing it. A clear-eyed, uncompromising, and cohesive first collection, it is a love letter and offering to the Earth, both...


  • Moccasins on concrete and other poems

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    A collection of concise and mostly short poems with recurring themes of our relationship with nature, the complexities of love and social justice. These poems are unpretentious in their direct and often unexpected imagery, with occasional threads...


  • Reflections of a Warrior Princess

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    Wishes and dreams piled deep below the turbulent seas Allowing it all to bring me to my knees Breaking away from the expectations at play I finally step out of my own way For once I see I can do nothing, but to let it all be


  • A Garden in the Rain

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    In this début collection, Dell Catherall shapes language the way a gardener prunes an aspen tree. Paying tribute to a garden, a husband, a son lost to childhood demons, the poems in this collection connect the humble to the luminous. A draft...


  • River of Your Days

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    Experiences growing up on the Prairies and living in Winnipeg, Montreal and coastal British Columbia mesh with reflections from living and working in countries in the Global South affected by poverty, disasters and conflict. In this volume of...