by Lynn Davies

Governor General's Award finalist Lynn Davies returns in a celebration of the enriching power of imagination with Where Sound Pools, reaffirming her reputation as one of Canada's most accomplished young poets. In this much anticipated second collection, Davies awakens a hidden sensory world and beautifully blends strength and understatement, observation and fancy, passion and playfulness. Where Sound Pools is filled with songs for movement -- for old boots, skis, ice roads, a canoe -- and acutely perceptive poems about people in action: children building snow tunnels, Giotto painting a fresco, a parking lot attendant retelling stories heard, each of which acknowledges how breakable human beings are and how easy it is to get lost. Lynn Davies's poetry has been described as fun, poignant, inspiring and stunningly beautiful. Her poetic voice is alert, engaging and thoughtful, at times dark, at times playful, her humour both affectionate and sardonic.  Serious passages can range in mood from contemplative to foreboding. Inspired by everyday life, Davies sees the extraordinary in the ordinary. Celebrating the senses grounded in dailiness and natural details, the collection honours the imagination -- how it both reshapes the sensory world and enriches our lives.