Somewhere Else

Don Precosky teaches English at the College of New Caledonia and is the
co-editor of Four Realities: Poets of Northern B.C.

Somewhere Else is a collection of mostly short, mostly first-person
poems based on recollections of personal experience. They are concrete,
touching, and often amusing. The book begins with a particularly fine
series of portrait poems about individuals from Saskatchewan. Some of
these poems are contemporary; others are about the author’s boyhood
memories of being a new kid in town and feeling like an outsider.
Robertson portrays himself as the guy who sits under a tree reading the
kind of book no one else in town would care to look at, and as the shy,
awkward boy at the school dance who always has trouble getting a girl to
dance with him.

Robertson’s biography at the back of the book says that he lived in
many places as a boy. This reviewer hopes that he will write about each
one as well as he has written about Saskatchewan.