In Wait, relationship and reflection are drawn on to free emotion and understanding from fear, whether it would grow in praise of passion or cooling love, or arise from being trapped by power or lost to indulgence. The poems in Wait seek to cut through the dishonesty and abuse that skew life.

Cage of Light is Ned Baeck’s second full-length collection of poems with Guernica Editions. (Wait, his debut collection, was released in 2018). He is also the author of a chapbook with LyricalMyrical press. Ned studied Liberal Arts at Concordia University and Asian Studies at the University of British Columbia. He has lived for eighteen years in Vancouver, and has worked mostly in the restaurant industry. In 2019 he travelled to Japan and spent five months at a Rinzai Temple, returning first to Toronto, where he stayed a year, before settling again in Vancouver.

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“Who, now that sadness is forbidden, dares weep, these poems pierce the psyche like spikes through our wooden heads.”

Claudio Gaudio, author of the novel Texas

Today's book of poetry thinks that Ned Baeck has arrived fully formed with a strong disposition. These poems ripple ripe because Baeck knows how to burn.

Michael Dennis