Slender Certainties

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Slender Certainties, Mary Lou Soutar-Hynes? fifth book of poetry, continues her poetic quest to make sense of the world and her place in it. In this deeply private, yet revealing collection, the page is a radical space where poems are freed to touch, to grieve, to desire, and to wonder. Returning to themes of love, loss and life?s dilemmas that fuelled her earlier work, she expands their scope, drawing inspiration from science, concepts of time, and the inescapable truth of her own mortality. This book is a co-publication with Aeolus House.

AUTHOR

Mary Lou Soutar-Hynes

Mary Lou Soutar-Hynes, is a Jamaican-Canadian, poet/educator and former nun. A Fellow at Scotland’s Hawthornden International Retreat for Writers in Fall 2009, her literary publications include the collections: Travelling Light (2006), long-listed for the 2007 ReLit Poetry Award, and The Fires of Naming (2001). Her poetry appears in the anthologies: Calling Cards: New Poetry from Caribbean/Canadian Women (2005); Garden Variety, An Anthology of Flower Poems (2007); and Resonance: Poetry and Art (2008), and in journals such as Quills, The Toronto Quarterly, Arc, and Lichen. She has lived in Toronto since her arrival in 1969.