Bird Tracks on Hard Snow

Bird Tracks on Hard Snow is Nelson Ball’s first collection of new work in many years. The poems focus primarily on visual perception and taken as a whole form a kind of seasonal diary. Like Ball’s earlier poetry they are characterized by a remarkable economy of language. The poems in the book were written between 1987 and 1993.

AUTHOR

Nelson Ball

Nelson Ball was born in Clinton, Ontario, and raised in southwestern Ontario. He was active as a poet, editor, and small press publisher in the 1960s and 1970s. Since 1972 he has been an antiquarian bookseller specializing in Canadian literature. He edited Frank Harrington’s Kristmiss Book, published by The Mercury Press in 1993, and is the author of three Mercury poetry books, At the Edge of the Frog Pond, Almost Spring, and The Concrete Air. Ball resides in Paris, Ontario, where the Nith and Grand Rivers converge.