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The Long Bond is a gathering of the finest work from six books over four decades by a widely respected and remarkably versatile poet. It spans a massive range of subjects and styles, encompassing the Canadian landscape, music and art, love and family, science, technology, and the manifold challenges to a questioning mind on our anxious planet.

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Allan Briesmaster learned his craft from the great rhapsodists: Wordsworth, Hopkins, Thomas. Mature and eloquent, Confluences is large in ideas, passions and rhythms. A poet both expert and humane, Briesmaster bucks literary fashion; he follows the river of his inspirations to its source and draws the reader to the inner places of music and vision. -- Richard Greene [on Pod and Berry:] Briesmaster is the kind of companion we all might wish for in walking and thinking and talking and in silence as we move into and through the world. -- John B. Lee Briesmasters poetry settles on you like crisp, fresh sheets; its elegant versification strikes a note as pure and clean as snow. Like physics or dance or incumbent weather, Interstellar is simultaneously simple and complicated, fluid and structured, scientific and lyrical invoking a sense that the secrets of the universe will be revealed, if one just reads closely enough. Sandra Kasturi

Praise for the author's previous books: Allan Briesmaster learned his craft from the great rhapsodists: Wordsworth, Hopkins, Thomas. Mature and eloquent, Confluences is large in ideas, passions and rhythms. A poet both expert and humane, Briesmaster bucks literary fashion; he follows the river of his inspirations to its source and draws the reader to the inner places of music and vision. --Richard Greene. Briesmaster's poetry settles on you like crisp, fresh sheets; its elegant versification strikes a note as pure and clean as snow. Like physics or dance or incumbent weather, Interstellar is simultaneously simple and complicated, fluid and structured, scientific and lyrical ? invoking a sense that the secrets of the universe will be revealed, if one just reads closely enough. --Sandra Kasturi. Open Interstellar at any page and the chances are not small that you?ll have a verbal masterpiece in front of you ? there are that many highly crafted triumphs of thought and feeling in this collection, that many unusually artful contemplations and enactments of our place within the natural world of the Earth and within the incomprehensibles of the worlds beyond the Earth. --Russell Thornton. [on Pod and Berry: ] Briesmaster is the kind of companion we all might wish for in walking and thinking and talking and in silence as we move into and through the world. --John B. Lee.

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Allan Briesmaster has been a readings organizer in Toronto, editor for several Canadian publishers, and a founding partner in Quattro Books. Currently he runs his own literary press, Aeolus House. The author of seven books of poetry, he has read his work, given talks, and hosted literary events across Canada.

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