Here is the long awaited second book by the author of While Crossing the Field.

In these transforming times, where do our longings take us? We strain for connection, community, beauty, stillness. In this collection, Banks explores these themes on the quiet landscape of her rural life. Here her interactions in the wide hush of a slowed world bring her a sense of community with those around her and with the great healing quality of the land that sustains us.

There is so much we hunger for:
not things, or even food
but sustenance in quiet conversation
that takes us along the road,
peaceful in the companionship of the other,
the deer crisscrossing the path ahead
licking salt on the yellow line
or snatching at tufts of grass exposed
after the great wind and rains of last night.

Deborah Banks was born and raised in the Eastern Townships of Quebec. She has taught in the rural regions of Quebec, in Northern Quebec and in Montreal. She now resides in Port Hilford, Nova Scotia, in a house she has slowly brought back to life over 20 years. Her work has appeared in The Dalhousie Review, The New Quarterly and Matrix. She was selected as one of the winners of Poetry in Motion for 2021. This is her second book of poetry.

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