Wolf Tree

by Alison Calder

Winner of the Aqua Books/Lansdowne Prize for Poetry and Best First Book Prize at the Manitoba Book Awards Finalist, Gerald Lampert Award for Best First Book by a Canadian, and the Pat Lowther Award, Best Book by a Canadian Woman. "Alison Calder's poems are wonderfully imaginative and wholly original. Hers is a fascinating, accomplished, inspired and inspiring new voice in Canadian poetry." - Helen Humphreys "Wolf Tree is an astonishingly powerful and accomplished first book. In their investigation of how our lives intersect with others, and with the natural world around us, the poems work to disrupt such simplistic dualities as the animal and the human, the monstrous and the normative--even the quick and the dead. Calder's voice is versatile, confident, intelligent, and wise."--Rhea Tregebov "I'm in love with Alison Calder's poems. They ferry us to the wild, frayed edges of things, through shifting layers of memory, dream, and story, back to the solid world tracked over in hiking boots. In poems that are, in turn, zany, meditative, elegiac, and lyrical, she connects these various worlds and, what's more, reminds us of our own connectedness to this earth. Calder's poetics of resilience and return, given our planet's ecological crisis, couldn't come at a better time."--Jeanette Lynes

Genres: Poetry, Canada

106 pages, Kindle Edition

First published March 28, 2007

Reviews

[Calista · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a beautiful book of poetry that has me missing the prairies. The way Alison wraps words into a poem is both unique and enjoyable. I loved the way she looked at the landscape of the prairie, and at family. If you love Saskatchewan, or poetry in general I would recommend this book to you.

[Angie Abdou · Rating 5 out of 5]

Incredible range, incredible insight, incredible beauty. Read it. It's clear it was a labour of a decade and that the author takes the craft of poetry very seriously.

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[Alexis · Rating 4 out of 5]

A gorgeous book of prairie poems. Simple and elegant, full of plain language and beautiful imagery. I loved the first few poems about circus freaks and the section about "Sexing the Prairie". My kind of poetry, written by my friend's cousin, oddly enough.

[Angela · Rating 4 out of 5]

Loved the section "Gravity" and also the "Sexing the Prairie" poems.