Of Love and Drowning is a commentary on the pre-cariousness of human existence, using a variety of real and imaginary voices to explore childhood, love, despair, aging, death and the reaffirmation of life.

Antony Christie’s poetry has been widely published in magazines in Canada, Ireland and the United Kingdom, in two chapbooks and in several anthologies. The Last Will and Testament of Jon Martinez de Larrume is his first full-length collection. He has taught literature, writing and drama in schools and colleges in Ontario and England, has edited the Ontario English Teachers’ magazine indirections and co-founded a small press. At present he divides his time between a farmhouse in southern Northumberland in England and a schoolhouse in Grey County in southwestern Ontario.

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“The poems in of love and drowning are rich with longing and grief, vividly alive with an unrelenting awareness of death and desire … a deeply intimate collection – vulnerable, loving, sensual, elegiac.” –Kristel Thornell, author of Night Street , joint winner of the Australia/Vogel Literary Award 2009

"This is a poet who seems equally connected to, and at home in, the natural and domestic worlds." -Newfoundland Quarterly

"These explorations gravitate toward a more Zen-like perception in that it is the moment itself worth noting. The poem may illuminate itself in the simplicity of task." -Tammy Armstrong, Atlantic Books Today

"Evocative, resonant, intimate, vulnerable. These are the words used to describe the poems in Christie's new book." -Chris Clark, The Confederate

“Christie distills lived experience into evocative and concise language. There is an intimacy in this voice, not overly confessional or intrusive but discreet and restrained, carrying the reader along in poems resonant with layers and undercurrents.” –Mike Barlow, award-winning author of Living on the Difference and Another Place