The Wind River Variations

by Brian Brett, Fritz Mueller (Photographer)

The Wind River Variations is a collection of poems and prose-poems given birth by Brian Brett's participation in one of a series of river expeditions in the summer of 2003, introducing artists, environmentalists, writers, photographers, and Native elders to the hard-to-access glories of the three rivers ? the Wind River, the Bonnet Plume River, and the Snake River that feed the Peel River which eventually flows into the Mackenzie River and the Beaufort Sea in the Arctic Ocean. These three rivers and their spectacular and delicate watersheds are nearly untouched, and are all under threat from a multitude of development proposals.

Genres: Poetry

96 pages, Paperback

First published April 29, 2012

About the author

Brian Brett, former chair of the Writers’ Union of Canada and a journalist for four decades, is best known as a poet, memoir writer, and fictionist. He is the author of twelve books including the poetry collection, “The Colour Of Bones In A Stream,” and the novel, “Coyote: A Mystery.” His memoir, “Uproar’s Your Only Music,” was a Globe and Mail’s Book Of The Year selection by Ronald Wright: “The most exciting Canadian book I’ve read all year. ” His best-seller, “Trauma Farm: A Rebel History of Rural Life,” won numerous prizes, including the Writers’ Trust annual award for best Canadian non-fiction book. His new poems: “To Your Scattered Bodies Go” won the CBC poetry prize in 2011. A collection of poems and prose poems about an endangered watershed in the near-arctic, “The Wind River Variations” has just been released. He is currently completing the third of a trilogy of memoirs, “Tuco And The Scattershot World: A Life With Birds.”