Like Zieroth’s The Fly In Autumn that reshapes the heroic sestet with the benefit of long years of poetic practice, D.C. Reid takes the glosa and makes it his own. Utilizing quotes from Rilke’s greatest series, The Duino Elegies, and PK Page’s hologram, Reid attends to the preoccupations of formality while addressing some of humanity’s themes: war; religion; women; what there is left of family; nature; as well as the ghosts of summer; even a canyon where he hung above the water before letting go. This book results from PK Page’s confidence in his first glosa many years ago, and his long desire to write a formalist book.

DC Reid is a writer and poet whose work lives in multiple disciplines: web-based video-poems for his book You Shall Have No Other on www.sandria.ca; environmental writing, for which he has won multiple awards including the Roderick Haig-Brown Award; and novels. His poetry has won silver in the Bliss Carman Award twice, among twenty other awards including the Colleen Thibaudeau award for significant support of Canadian poetry. He is a former president of the League of Canadian Poets and the Federation of BC Writers. He released a memoir of decades spent on the Nitinat River titled A Man and His River, published with Hancock House Publishers in 2022, and his most recent publication, Selected and New Poems, is his sixteenth book. DC is broadly known for extensive writing on in-ocean fish farms; neuroplasticity and extensive creativity mechanisms. He lives in Victoria, BC. www.dcreid.ca

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