Praise for The Bosun Chair:

“A treasure-box of Newfoundland lore, collected by the great-granddaughter of not one, but two, shipwreck-braving poets, The Bosun Chair‘s seamless movement between memoir, poetry, interview and historical document echoes Ondaatje’s early genre-blending lyric prose. Deslisle tenderly imagines a family history of the ancestral Newfoundland she never knew.”
~ Sonnet L’Abbé, author of A Strange Relief

“[T]he author’s delicate language will have you feeling comfortable as you swing from moment to moment and piece together her myriad stories.”
~ WHERE Edmonton

“Poetic linking throughout the book … reminds us of the gaps in our own identity. In the end, Delisle helps us realize that construction of identity is an ongoing, slippery and deliberate journey.”
~ Elizabeth Johnston, Atlantic Books Today

“The Bosun Chair, with its transparency of process and its artful blend of reportage, poetry, and prose, shines a light on migration’s dark sea.”
~ Susan Olding, The Malahat Review

“[The Bosun Chair] resonates with a subtle charm and quiet beauty, and the small outports of Newfoundland indeed become our imagined place, as well as Delisle’s.”
~ Suzanne James, Canadian Literature