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The Essential Travis Lane

The Essential Travis Lane presents a selection of poems by a Canadian poet who combines exquisite observations of the natural world with profound thoughts about time and mortality.

Inspired by nature, science, topics in the news, art and music, New Brunswick poet M. Travis Lane is prolific yet eschews the spotlight. She has won the Atlantic Poetry Prize, the Alden Nowlan Prize for Excellence and the Banff Centre Bliss Carmen Poetry Award, among a host of others. The Essential Travis Lane celebrates her lilting, insightful work by bringing to the fore a selection of her shorter poems—many of them out of print—that demonstrate her signature clear-eyed perceptiveness and rhythmic formal technique. These poems are fine examples of her linguistic mastery, as well as the wisdom and heart that characterize her voice.

The Essential Poets Series presents the works of Canada’s most celebrated poets in a package that is beautiful, accessible and affordable. The Essential Travis Lane is the 13th volume in the series.

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Travis Lane

Millicent Elizabeth Travis Lane was born in 1934 in San Antonio, Texas. She moved to Fredericton, New Brunswick in 1960 where to this day she holds the title of Honourary Research Associate for the Department of English at UNB. In addition to having published fourteen books of poetry, Lane’s poetry reviews have appeared in a number of publications over the last fifty years, most notably in The Fiddlehead. Her work has been awarded the Atlantic Poetry Prize, the Pat Lowther Memorial Award, and the Bliss Carman Award.
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 A Dream for Margaret – The Master Builder – Introduction to Caribou City – The Apollonian Whale – Jonah’s Song 5 $0.50

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 Pleasant Things – This Being the Case – Spring Break-up – The Hayman – The Statue – Plain Stars – The Song of Lot’s Wife – What Moves Is Held … 23 $2.30

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 Walking Under the Nebulae – The Grand Mirrors at Versailles – Matins – Last Picnic – That Eye – Colonial – Raven – The Healed Child – The Anodyne … 14 $1.40

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 Need – The Stars This Evening – ‘Only Connect’ – Corduroy – Any Day Now – Your Other Word – Road Ending 7 $0.70

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 About Travis Lane 1 $0.10

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 Selected Bibliography 1 $0.10