The Witness Ghost Bruce McIvor Maleea Acker’s dauntless new poetry

Maleea Acker’s dauntless new poetry collection is crafted with emotion and bold style

"Readers will find these forty-plus poems insightful and accessible

between what is lost and what is found in this collection

It's burning Nevin Sample's fishing boat and setting it out to sea

The "thought rhyme" is a fascinating concept

The Witness Ghost Bruce McIvor Maleea Acker’s dauntless new poetryDescription The Witness Ghost is Tim Bowling's most unified collection of poems since his widely praised debut, Low Water Slack (Nightwood, 1995). Here, in an extended sequence of powerful elegies, he traces his feelings of loss, bewilderment and anger at the death of his father, a man who spent his working life as a salmon fisherman on British Columbia's majestic Fraser River. Borne back into a past of old wharves, boats, nets and ripening