Underwater Carpentry

Bartlett takes his readers on a meditative journey in which he encapsulates the complexity of human experience. Delighting in humour and the play of words, he induces his readers to take a new look at historical events, the natural world, and a full range of emotions.

AUTHOR

Brian Bartlett

Brian Bartlett has published many collections and chapbooks of poetry, including The Watchmaker?s Table, The Afterlife of Trees, Granite Erratics, and Wanting the Day: Selected Poems, along with one prose book, Ringing Here & There: A Nature Calendar, with another forthcoming in 2017. He resides in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Reviews

When Planet Harbor, Brian Bartlett’s first full-length volume, was released in 1989, it was widely praised for its “maturity and depth” (The Montreal Gazette) and “its exact and marvellous use of language” (Canadian Book Review Annual).

In this new collection, Bartlett brings together several long poems with shorter work to take his readers on meditative journeys. Drawing upon urban and wilderness landscapes, history and event, Bartlett demonstrates an eye for ironic detail and a delight in the play of words.