Repairing the Hive is the third and final book of The Empress Trilogy, a rich and diverse family saga set in Victoria, BC from post-colonial to contemporary times. In this final novel, a newspaper reporter witnesses the repair of the human ‘hive’ after generations of personal, social and cultural upheaval. The first two volumes, The Empress Letters and Tempo Rubato, are told in the first person by two generations of women artists uncovering secrets and lies in a shadowy world of bootlegging, the opium trade and global chaos. The final book offers a third person account of the coming together of a community to bring the post-colonial generation out of the silence.

Linda Rogers is a poet passionately engaged with existence whose poems resonate a subterranean logic and the music of deep mindfulness. In Homing: New & Selected Poems she returns again and again to the unquiet ground of the theatre of life. A singular and uncompromising awareness of suffering and joy, hope and despair, the arc of naked dreams and the sense of community, informs her three decades of writing and numerous published collections. In Homing Rogers has included representative poems from previous volumes –– social poems, introspective poems, both thoughtful and exuberant –– as well as new work. The sequence is consistent and steadfast like a slow-moving train of perception through the world of time. Linda Roger’s poems sing with a compassion and concern for social justice that elevates the spirit and massages the mind. Homing is a delicate and deliberate portrait of one poet’s chronicle of residence on planet earth.

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Linda Rogers’ multi-layered narrative about East meets West finds common ground from the impact of music on our lives. Rogers brilliantly tweaks the musical imagination to pull you into the inner world of the characters.
~ Gary Karr, solo bassist