Simple moments crackling with psychological complexity blend with a sophisticated narrative tone to create this poetry collection. Infusing energized, improvisatory fluency into each elongated work of
In A Serious Call, Governor General's Award-winner Don Coles presents a collection of moments suspended in time: a line of poetry, forgotten for years and remembered as often; a photograph cut out of
`Most of all, it is Coles's mastery of syntax, sinuous and unpredictable, that brings his poems alive. The trademark hesitations, asides and parentheses that mark his lines derive from speech (a Hemi
