Parish of the Physic Moon [first edition]

Don Domanski is one of Canada’s most original and accomplished poetic voices. In this outstanding new collection, he ushers us into a strange and beautiful landscape, illuminated by medicinal moonlight, beset by uneasy dreams. At the core of these poems is a physical sense of the spiritual world and the restorative powers of mystery. The animals in Domanski’s poetic bestiary can show us nature red in tooth and claw, but also nature as a healing force. The houses, elevators, and shadows of our daily lives become cosmologies of fear and love. A train trip to Fredericton opens onto eternity. The twelve months of the year offer up unique revelations of the continual movement between matter and spirit.Don Domanski is well-known as a seer of the unexpected, for finely tuned metaphors which give a distinct and sometimes hair-raising spin on the real world we allegedly live in. This is a major book by a Canadian poet at the peak of his craft.