Moosewood Sandhills

Moosewood Sandhills can be thought of as a poetic counterpart to Lilburns seminal collection of essays Living In The World As If It Were Home. It documents his retreat to the parched scrublands of Saskatchewan Canada; a place where the dead are believed to meander. Here he planted thin gardens dug a root cellar slept in the fields under summer stars - and looked. The poems by turns revelatory and ecstatic revolve around simple acts of attention; of exchanging glances with animals; of seeing their traces in the bare hills. Moosewood Sandhills is akin to a lost sacred text of the desert fathers; a remarkable collection of meditations from one of Canadas finest poets.