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Douglas Lochhead
During his lifetime, Douglas Lochhead wrote extensively about the people and the landscape of the Tantramar region, his home from the time of his appointment as Director of Canadian Studies at Mount Allison University in 1975 until his death. His relationship with the upland marsh above the Cumberland Basin was a a particularly fruitful one from a literary standpoint, and poetry collections such as 'High Marsh Road' and 'Dykelands' secure Lochhead a place alongside Charles G.D. Roberts and John Thompson in the fraternity of Tantramar bards. Among the most iconic modern-day elements of the Tantramar's landscape are the towers which comprise Radio Canada International's transmission site, which since 1943 have broadcast Canadian shortwave radio signals around the world. In June 2012, RCI will discontinue shortwave broadcasting due to changing technology and federal funding cutbacks. This keepsake was produced by Thaddeus Holownia and Andrew Steeves in tribute to the passing of these two Sackville institutions and 'homesick noise' they sent 'around the world from this brooding marsh.'
Orkney
A whimsical journey to a Scottish island. Cast in Eusebius and hand-printed on 100 lb Mohawk Superfine paper. Illustration by Andrew Steeves. Casebound, paper over boards, by Ruth Legge. Signed and numbered in an edition of 50 copies.
Midgic
Midgic is a small community on the edge of New Brunswick's Tantramar marshes, thought by historian William Francis Ganong to have been named for a Mi'kmaq descriptive for "a point of highland into a marsh." In this new suite of poems, Douglas Lochhead displays the sure, grid-laying eye of the archeologist, mapping each small detail in his concise lyric shorthand. Like Lochhead's High Marsh Road (1980) and Dykelands (1989), Midgic employs a method of repeated encounters with a specific place to reveal over time a rhythm and logic otherwise invisible in both the landscape and the visitant. Lochhead's gift lies in his ability to amplify the truths of the greater world while speaking of a single place in whispers.
Count Filippo; or The Unequal Marriage
A five-act tragedy in blank verse. The play is founded upon the old problem of an unnatural and ill-omened union between youth and age.
Yes, Yes, Yes!
A suite of 50 poems in the memorable lyric shorthand Lochhead coined in High Marsh Road and Midgic.
Long Poems
None
Looking Into Trees
Looking Into Trees is the latest collection from the pen of eminent Canadian poet Douglas Lochhead. Drawing its inspiration from time spent looking "into trees, between trees, around trees", behind the poet's house, the collection evokes the wonderful mystery of trees and the way they confront the contemplative viewer. For Lochhead, the ever-changing landscape of trees, their shadows and lights, reflects life itself, the great changes and the small details. Lochhead presents looking into and between trees as a continuing surprise; every hour, every second is different, as light changes and wind moves, leading to reflection on the moods, events, and phases of human life. Lochhead's human world is intimately interwoven with its landscape. The work is illustrated with details from paintings by Kenneth Lochhead, the poet's brother and one of the Regina Five group of abstract painters who were so significant to the development of Canada's fine arts tradition.
The Advocate
The Advocate, an historical melodramatic romance in prose, which makes use of English and French antagonisms in Lower Canada.
