Welch's book reveals a deep understanding of the Maritime countryside and man's relationship with nature.

Born in Luxembourg, Liliane Welch (1937) has lived for thirty-five years in Sackville, NB. A professor of French Studies at Mount Allison University, she is the co-author of Emergence: Baudelaire, Mallarmé, Rimbaud (1973) and Address: Rimbaud Mallarmé Butor (1979). Welch is also the author of two collections of essays, Seismographs (1988) and Frescoes (1998). She is the recepient of the Bressani Prize for Life in Another Language (1992) and the Writers' Federation of New Brunswick Alfred G. Bailey Prize (1986). In 1998 she was elected to the Institut Grand-Ducal, Luxembourg.

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"Welch's poems are infused with a keen sense of Maritime history and politics never dreamed of by Charles G.D. Roberts... The tides, the woods, the winter, the towns, and the dykes are all given definition and used to help define the inner landscape of hope, fear, bravery, delusion, dishonesty and pretension."

<i>The Antigonish Review</i>

"Liliane Welch's poetic voice is delicate, perceptive and has a bell-like ring."

<i>Waves</i>

"An uncompromising, ironic eye on her subject matter."

<i>PRISM International</i>