The Man with the Dancing Monkey

Bert Almon is a professor of English at the University of Alberta. He is
the author of Calling Texas, Earth Prime, and Mind the Gap.

This fresh and thoroughly enjoyable first collection by Alberta poet
Barbara Mulcahy expresses a mythic view. We learn about odd
manifestations of the Muse in Mulcahy’s remote northern Alberta
setting, and are treated to a set of fine meditations on the Raven (a
bird with legendary associations), which are reminiscent of Ted
Hughes’s Crow. Mulcahy’s poems are varied in style and full of the
kind of detail that lends authenticity. This is a deeply satisfying
book, filling needs we may not know we have.