Written during a five-year period of life-threatening illness, this collection of 85 poems covers a remarkable range of subjects but always manages to return to thoughts of friendship and nature. Begun as a meditation on mortality, the work gradually changes course and begins to reexamine the world with a new acuity that eschews self-pity and insists on being alert and alive.

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John H. Baillie is a writer who has published many short pieces of fiction and poetry. He is the author of Midnight's Delight. He lives in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

"A beautiful and bold realization, Destination Mutable covers a vast range of stark, intensely realized observations. . . . These often koan-like gems offer new ways to see, to be inspired, and—yes—to live. A handsome and highly recommended volume." —Peter H. Liotta, author, The Graveyard of Fallen Monuments

"Baillie is a poet with a rare voice, whose words — rendered so nakedly on the page — are a potent reminder of the power of poetry to communicate essential truths about life." “Robert M. Abbott, author, Conscious Endeavors

"Baillie demonstrates a secure yet poignant and quite distinctive artistic point of view." “Allan Brown, Jones Av. (2010)