Desire Lines

By: Glen Downie

January 2002
88 pages | ISBN 0-919897-84-3
$15.00

Glen Downie took pilgrimage leave from his role as a clinical social worker to "leave behind the silencing/ cancers and wander/ a geography of voices." And voice do inhabit him, on Homer's islands and Venice's streets... a larger, intensely layered canvas where suffering is ameliorated by wonder, by "poetry and song." - Richard Lemm

Reviews

• The Small Press Guy (Don Gorman, The Small Press Guy, 7/1/2003). "a valuable, intellectual tour of Europe by a poet gifted in vision, insight and the psychology of the 21st century intellectual."
• Local wordsmith crafts poems about European travels (Susan Peters, The Village Gleaner, 6/1/2003). "... experienced and armchair travellers alike can enjoy Desire Lines simply for its escapist qualities, as the book is both travel story as well as poetry."

Other Titles by Glen Downie

• Local News (2011)
• Loyalty Management (2007)
• Wishbone Dance (1999)