While Crossing the Field
- Publisher
- Pottersfield Press
- Initial publish date
- Jun 2020
- Category
- General
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781989725139
- Publish Date
- Jun 2020
- List Price
- $19.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781989725146
- Publish Date
- Mar 2020
- List Price
- $14.99
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Description
While Crossing the Field is Deborah Banks's debut book of poetry. Her poems take us out onto the land where experiences in the natural world are filtered through the internal landscape of longing, presence, gratitude, and attentiveness. From the lowly spider to the vast expanse of the Atlantic below her house, the poet invites us to consider who we are when everything in our bustling world is removed and we are left with the greatest expanse of all: the Now and how it can inform our every breath.
About the author
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.