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Every

Shameless

Ray

Poems by Leslie Timmins

(Inanna Publication 2018)

“…powerful … evocative… adventurous…”
Ormsby Review

In Every Shameless Ray accidents and reversals disrupt habits of perception, like the lover met in middle age who reveals the “second chance, lower row” of a papaya’s wet black seeds. Even in “a late and private garden” a Maple tree’s scarlet leaves may “tip to pour/ into our own bone cups/ the blood of trees/ like a god feeds a god and we one of these.”

There are poems that grapple with cancer, the disruption of art tearing down its foundations, the effect of war on children.. In these “the door of the mind” may suddenly swing open revealing the human predicament, “framed and boundless.”

Praise for Every Shameless

Leslie Timmins has given us, in Every Shameless Ray, a challenging collection of powerful and evocative poems — poems which are at once tenebrous and illuminating and which will test the elasticity of her readers’ minds and imaginations. [Her] choice of subject matter is relevant, resonant and (at times) other-worldly.

– Ormsby Review #725 by P.W. Bridgman

If half the pleasure of Timmins’ poetry comes from discovering surprising new perspectives, as in “The Field Speaks of Its Persistence,” much of the rest comes from our sense of her tactile control of texture and language as she ranges from the endearingly domestic through the joyfully sensual to encounters with disease…

– Christopher Levenson, Governor General’s Award nominee and author
of A tattered coat upon a stick and Night Vision

Whether traversing the fraught terrain of cancer or depicting the ecstatic in Matisse’s canvasses, Timmins explores the nature of perception, its shifts and shadows, in finely wrought, beautifully crafted poems. This collection shimmers with a radiant engagement with life.

– Fiona Tinwei Lam, author of Intimate Distances and
Enter the Chrysanthemum

Enter the world of these poems and be shamelessly transformed.

– Susan McCaslin, author of Into the Open: Poems New and Selected

Many of the poems… open the windows and throw back the curtains to expose the multi-dimensional landscape of Timmins’ exquisite mindset. This book is well worth reading.

– Canadian Poetry Review, Issue 10 by Candice James

Where to Purchase

Information for Ordering

Paperback: 100 pages
Publisher: Inanna Poetry & Fiction Series (Oct. 25 2018)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1771335777
ISBN-13: 978-1771335775
Product Dimensions: 19 x 0.8 x 15.2 cm
Shipping Weight: 286 g