The Witness Ghost Bruce McIvor and the ability to combine

and the ability to combine the abstract with the pragmatic in poems that shimmer like the scales of salmon he describes

close the book

—Richard Kelly Kemick

between what is lost and what is found in this collection

It's burning Nevin Sample's fishing boat and setting it out to sea

The Witness Ghost Bruce McIvor and the ability to combineDescription The Witness Ghost is Tim Bowling's most unified collection of poems since his widely praised debut, Low Water Slack (Nightwood, 1995). Here, in an extended sequence of powerful elegies, he traces his feelings of loss, bewilderment and anger at the death of his father, a man who spent his working life as a salmon fisherman on British Columbia's majestic Fraser River. Borne back into a past of old wharves, boats, nets and ripening