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Praised
by Margaret Avison and John Robert Columbo, George Whipple is a poets
poeta poet other poets look up to as a master craftsman. These poems
unite Romantic richness with Classic forma balance of literary freedom
within a matrix of restraint where the new and tradtional, the sacred
and profane, the universal and the local join in expressions of graphic
joy and lyric praise.
George Whipple was
born in Saint John, N B, grew up in Toronto, and now lives and writes
in Burnaby, BC. A member of the League of Canadian Poets, he has been
profiled in Canadian Author and Poets Market (US) and is listed
in Contemporary Authors. He has previously published Hats Off to the
Sun and Carousel, both from Ekstasis Editions, and Tom Thompson
and Other Poems, from Penumbra Press. This is his seventh book. |
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