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Along the way, time slides magically back and forth between the speaker's contemporary existence and his rural childhood life.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Zieroth's language resonates with a strong cadence and rhythm, becoming almost hypnotic as it weaves back and forth through time and around subjects as diverse as the endless dark of the snow and the inexplicable way we learn from the children we once were and the adults we are becoming. \u003ci\u003eThe Village of Sliding Time\u003c\/i\u003e, a marvellously achieved addition to Zieroth's work, is a major contribution to the long poem in Canada.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51037120692497,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51037123870993,"sku":"NIN9781550173888","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52681168617745,"sku":"NLS9781550173888","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/155017388X.jpg?v=1751055547"},{"product_id":"first-here-and-then-far-book-david-zieroth-9781990776915","title":"first here and then far","description":"\u003cp\u003eCanadian poet David Zieroth's creative journey, still unfolding after more than fifty years, comes into brilliant focus in this revelatory retrospective.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGathered with meticulous care and arranged chronologically, this vital collection reflects the unique voice and ever-evolving style of BC poet David Zieroth over more than half a century of acclaimed work. From early meditations on his rural Prairie childhood to the moving consideration of family and history in the previously unpublished poem at the book's end, Zieroth allows imagery rooted in daily life to guide him in unexpected directions, revealing moments that illuminate the otherwise hidden confluence of mind and world.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAs first here and then far shows, Zieroth's curiosity-charged poems have always possessed a translucent directness. Motion and stillness meet, whether the view is from one of his many international voyages or simply from his North Vancouver balcony, as in the evocatively titled recent book watching for life. And his language has gathered momentum over the years, becoming more streamlined as it sheds convention and takes on a new lyricism.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn essential document of a long and endlessly inventive life in words, first here and then far is a worthy testament to the energy and subtle insight of a poet who remains at the height of his powers.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51387514814737,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51387515896081,"sku":"NIN9781990776915","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":67652047733009,"sku":"NLS9781990776915","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1990776914.jpg?v=1790077102"},{"product_id":"bridge-from-day-to-night-book-david-zieroth-9781550178357","title":"the bridge from day to night","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe title poem in David Zieroth's the bridge from day to night follows the speaker across the Second Narrows Bridge to North Vancouver, a well-worn moment in a daily commute that opens a window into the sublime: \"from the apex \/ of the bridge with traffic flying \/ I look directly into \/ their deepest clefts.\" Such moments occur throughout the collection, as Zieroth explores the resonance built from layers of such ordinary moments as they accumulate throughout a lifetime--indistinct and imperceptible as they occur, but creating unseen undercurrents through memory and time.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn this temporal landscape, the natural world becomes a touchstone, both entangled in and standing apart from the speaker's internal narrative: \"I brought from that forming hour a \/ precise smell of foliage: funeral wreaths \/ bore an acid scent.\" Shifting fluidly through time, the speaker grows from a child to understand, reflect and then outlive his parents. Finally, the collection \u003ca target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003c\/a\u003elights on the incongruities and contradictions in death: \"still later I kick his flattened corpse \/ to the gutter, and it skids on concrete \/ a broken valise, weightless \/ on this segment of the journey.\"\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWith his characteristic humour, subtlety and ability to find transcendence in the everyday, Zieroth traces the delicate strands connecting the most minute and familiar details to the most profound mysteries, giving voice to the unknowable.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52346998620433,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52346999341329,"sku":"NLS9781550178357","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781550178357.jpg?v=1758177008"},{"product_id":"how-i-joined-humanity-at-last-book-david-zieroth-9781550171822","title":"How I Joined Humanity at Last","description":"\u003ci\u003eHow I Joined Humanity at Last\u003c\/i\u003e, David Zieroth's fifth book of poems, explores the mid-life road to renewal and tells the story of one man's journey toward compassion.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Zieroth's work delves deeply into the issues that affect all of us, from relationships between children and parents and \"the old blood turbulence\/ of families, tribes,\" to the day-to-day thoughts of working life:\"I want a lateral transfer\/into the position of office enchanter.\/Think of the power\/I'll add to my workload.\" And beyond these concerns he also examines the roles of spirit and imagination in our daily lives: \"The function of the individual\/...is to provide the lightning strike\/ to matter.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eHow I Joined Humanity at Last\u003c\/i\u003e evokes the clarity of Zieroth's first book, \u003ci\u003eClearings\u003c\/i\u003e, but it also reaches a new level of maturity and depth. His poetry is concerned with inwardness, with loss and longing, with imagination and memory, and ultimately with dream work that returns us to ourselves and to a sense of community. The voice that emerges is as strong as it is haunting and compelling.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52666250494225,"sku":"NLS9781550171822","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781550171822.jpg?v=1762279466"},{"product_id":"trick-of-staying-and-leaving-book-david-zieroth-9781990776021","title":"the trick of staying and leaving","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom Governor General's Award-winning poet David Zieroth comes a new collection about history, connections and travels in Europe.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eImpromptu English lessons in a North Vancouver coffee shop, and subsequent trips to Bratislava, bring the speaker in these poems a warmer appreciation of friends and family as well as a wider vision of the interplay of folklore and culture, and of the human-made and natural world. These poems speak of affections that cross borders--geographical, historical and interpersonal--and that show us ways to love each other. Here are villages, people and landscapes in Slovakia, a post-Communist country with a complicated past and present, where Zieroth seeks what unites us across barriers. He brings this deeper sense of connection home with him, even when a part of his new sense of self and others lingers along the Danube.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52680113193233,"sku":"NLS9781990776021","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781990776021.jpg?v=1786442235"},{"product_id":"fly-in-autumn-book-david-zieroth-9781550174687","title":"The Fly in Autumn","description":"\u003cb\u003eSelected for Poetry in Transit 2009\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Fly in Autumn\u003c\/i\u003e is a nuanced work with an absurdist twist in which recognizable landscapes--of North Vancouver quays and piers and harbour fog--are sometimes irrevocably altered by \"water-light\" into places of the mind alive with \"the hundred thousand thoughts everyone collects in a day.\" Risking unease, using language both tender and ironic, Zieroth's poems range from the cockiness of flight, from Dick and Jane readers to insurance clerks and blind nurses, and to the inevitability of decline. 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Inspired by and responding to art and music, history and war, architecture and place, this collection unearths knowledge that can only be realized by leaving home.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThroughout the book, the observant eye of a visitor witnesses the layering of history and the contemporary, and contemplates the juxtaposition of the practical aspects of travelling (\"travelling without earplugs\") with emotional and spiritual evolution (\"\u003ci\u003eSelf-portrait Nude\u003c\/i\u003e\"). Responding to greats such as W.H. Auden, James Joyce and Albrecht Dürer, the speaker expresses how viewing foreign artwork or hearing unfamiliar music can spark a new awareness, not only of international culture, but of the expression of life and the human condition.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe poems temper the high with the low, reflecting the many dualities of wanderlust. 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In watching for life David Zieroth ponders questions about how to live and how to continue. The poems reach out in imagining the lives of others, and the poet himself is watched in turn. Zieroth conjures the history of his environment and the people who pass through it, reminding us of the place we occupy \/ unfinished within ourselves and our hunger to locate ourselves in the strangers we encounter. 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