Edge of Time, The

In this collection of poems, Skelton walks the edge, looking forwards and backwards. Meditating on roads taken and not taken, he employs his poetic gift to consider our relation to time: how we are immersed in it, and yet able to step through to other dimensions. One of Canada’s finest translators, Skelton also includes a series of translations of such international modernist masters as Rilke, Baudelaire, and Yuli Daniel. Short-listed for BC Book Prize.

“A shape-changer, a vision-maker. These poems must be read for their soliltude, their insistent reverie.”
— Pat Lane.

“Floreat Skeltonus.”
— Margaret Atwood