Contents
The deepest voice, the surest - 11
as if from outside utterly 12
past dark and a desert empty 13
of everything doubt portended, all 14
loveliness but its timbre lost 15
of the forest we'd imagined 16
spoke singly with authority 18
along a line of prophecy, hope 19
of old men, whose voice it was 20
whose lineage it was, lost 21
even to women, half 23
their tribe, retreat and retraction 25
of the human to the last word 27
of the least and loneliest-father 28
done with begetting, done 29
with all but the power 31
of the pregnant ether, refuge 32
Of a world once various and fluid 33
lived-in nectar, absorbed 34
by God, whose character is voice 36
and ghostly possibility (threat 37
and promise) of rejuvenation 39
in a son born 41
but not begotten, dead 43
and risen, celibate 45
and ageless in a void of pain 46
made the only world to be sure of 47 Scrape
a shadow play, romance 49
of the pure 51 The Sealed Room
or desperate heart. 53 Lost in the Material
55 For Example, It's Not You Driving
57 Coda
60 A Small Blue Banknote
61 Terminal Velocity
62 Radical Innocence
64 Reprieve for the Body
John Pass's poems have appeared in magazines and anthologies in Canada, the US, the UK, Ireland and the Czech Republic. He is the author of nineteen books and chapbooks, most notably the quartet AT LARGE, comprised of The Hour's Acropolis (Harbour, 1991), Radical Innocence (Harbour, 1994), Water Stair (Oolichan Books, 2000)--shortlisted for the Governor General's Award--and Stumbling in the Bloom (Oolichan Books, 2005)--winner of the Governor General's Award. His most recent collection, crawlspace, published by Harbour in 2011, won the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize in 2012. He lives with his wife, writer Theresa Kishkan, near Sakinaw Lake on BC's Sunshine Coast.
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