Ringing Here & There: A Nature Calendar

by Brian Bartlett

In this, his first book of prose, distinguished Canadian poet Brian Bartlett offers a daily diary from spring to spring. In the tradition of John Clare’s notebooks and letters, Henry David Thoreau’s journals, and Annie Dillard’s Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Bartlett looks out at his surroundings with a poet’s eye for detail, his ear attuned to the ringings of the natural world. Grounded in Nova Scotia, but reflecting travels further afield to Alberta, Nebraska, New York City and Ireland, the entries take on the qualities of field reports, sketches, commentaries, tributes and laments, quotations and collages. Over 366 daily entries, Bartlett shows that the resonance between human life and nature is there, waiting to be heard.

Genres: Poetry, Nonfiction

172 pages, Paperback

First published April 14, 2014

About the author

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Brian Bartlett’s books of poetry include Granite Erratics, The Afterlife of Trees, Travels of the Watch, and Wanting the Day: Selected Poems, which was published in both Britain and Canada and won the 2004 Atlantic Poetry Prize. He also edited Don McKay: Essays on His Works and is working on a collection of prose, Living with Poetry. He teaches at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax.