". these poems are beautifully evocative of place and evince a close attention to the particularities of land and its inhabitants through shifting seasons. in the entanglement of history and place that occurs throughout." - Emily McGiffin, poet, lecturer (UBC), winner of the 2008 Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers, Writers Trust of Canada, co-chair, Association of Literature, Environment; Culture Canada "The weight of history lies on the spine of memory, Williamson writes. That heft and delicate balance are palpable in these rich poems. Reading them, I felt deeply moved by the contemplation and accounting of all those weighty, perfect stones." - Lauren Carter, poet, novelist, winner of the 2020 Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction, finalist in CBC's 2017 Poetry Contest, winner of ROOM Poetry Contest, 2014, Writer in Residence, 2020-21 Winnipeg Millennium Library "These poems, rich with compassion and open-hearted curiosity, are themselves perfect stones, marking place and time in evocative language." - Lorri Neilsen Glenn, former Poet Laureate, Halifax, winner of the Miramichi Reader's Best Book for Non-fiction: Following the River, 2019, professor emerita, Mount St.

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