Selected Poems: Laurence Hutchman

"Laurence Hutchman's poetry is a witness to the world around him, to the patterns of families, nations, and landscape. He hears Mozart in the supermarket, and Nelligan breaking into song. While there's a refreshingly outward-looking documentary zeal in his poetry, transformations abound: a typewriter becomes a 'silent temple,' a baseball glove a 'leather flower,' a forest a 'way of going into myself.' With this selection from his previous books, it's clearer than ever how Hutchman's mix of curiosity-driven realism and metaphorical surprise gives his poetry generosity and scope" - Brian Bartlett. {Guernica Editions}

Laurence Hutchman teaches at the Université de Moncton, Edmundston Campus, in New Brunswick, Canada. Author of six books of poetry: The Twilight Kingdom (1973), Explorations (1975), Blue Riders (1985), Foreign National (1994), Emery (1998), and Beyond Borders (2000), he has also co-edited with Anne Compton, Ross Leckie, and Robin McGrath, Coastlines: the Poetry of Atlantic Canada. His book Emery received an honourable mention for the Alfred G. Bailey Award in 1995. From 2000-02 he served as President of the Writers' Federation of New Brunswick. He is the father of two children and lives in Edmundston with his wife, Mary.