When two voices sing together in poetry they begin an exploration into a world that is rich and dynamic. Cantata in Two Voices is a book written over the course of three months in which each poet embraced an epigraph sent to them by the other. It is here the real collaboration begins. A third voice reaches into the hearts of these two women as they play back and forth with one another in words meant to make you think twice, listen deeply and in the end sing. The line by line format makes it impossible to distinguish between the two voices as they gradually meld into one. This is a poetic journey into unknown territory as Neale and Nish reveal themselves, lose heart, win games, respond to love and ultimately exist through the friendship forged together in the process of writing.

Jude Neale is a Canadian poet of national and international acclaim. She has penned ten books, and several libretti that have also been published and performed. One of her poems was chosen to ride the Channell Island buses by the Poet Laureate of Britain. Jude has extensive expertise in multi-disciplinary collaboration.

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'Infused with the sounds of life and rain and wind, these poems of response are unmistakably the voices of women – mature, ripe and in tune with each other – rising in a harmony of celebration.' ~Heidi Greco, author of Flightpaths: The Lost Journals of Amelia Earhart