Barry Dempster copyVirtuosic poems tracking two intertwined themes: the breakdown of an obsessive love affair and the vicissitudes of middle age.Invisible Dogs, Dempster’s fourteenth collection, is a
"In the new world, we wake up/to a bone ark bobbing on a blue wherever," Dempster writes in the title poem of this new collection, his twelfth book of poetry. He connects the intensi
Award-winning poet Barry Dempster's latest collection embraces the fragility of life and the bitterness of endings. Ghosts of his father and mother haunt the pages and friends face battles with cancer
A love affair chronicled?from obsession to heartbreak, foolhardiness to faith.In Love Outlandish, Barry Dempster undoes all the cliches that have barnacled our love lives and, with the zest and courag
The Burning Alphabet confirms and extends Barry Dempster?s reputation as one of Canada?s most respected poets. Underpinning these poems, as in his previous work, there lies an unswerving dedication to
A beloved poet explores why life is so rich, even at the worst of times.Disturbing the Buddha, Barry Dempster's fifteenth collection, is disarmingly conversational and, like the best conversations, it
