The Word for Sand

By: Heather Spears

January 1998
82 pages | ISBN 0-919897-10-X
$15.00

**Winner of the Governor General's Award for Poetry**
**Winner of the Pat Lowther Award**

The poems are informed by the author's long sojourns in both Canada and Europe, and a new horizon appears: the author gets acquainted with a group of refugees from the Near East and in some of the poems describes their predicament and her own identification with these homeless people, who begin to define a new country of the mind.

Praise for Heather Spears' Poems Selected and New:
Heather Spears, our poet without borders, writes about human suffering the way she draws it - in a manner that is at once quietly unflinching yet magically transcenent. - Ron Charach

Other Titles by Heather Spears

• I can still draw (2008)
• Required Reading: A witness in words and drawing to the Reena Virk Trials 1998-2000 (2000)
• Poems Selected and New (1998)
• Human Acts (1991)
• How to Read Faces (1986)