Oberon Press: 2 books

Winter’s Descent takes up where “Summer’s Idyll” left off. The time is 1945. Will and his mother have moved to a new town. Will is growing up. His story is one of loneliness, of finding girls, of discovering books, of learning to write. A story told with rare insight and gentle humour.

Long, dramatic narrative poems like Riel, Coppermine and Tecumseh were all pieces of a grand public mythology. A True History of Lambton County was more private, more personal, as were the family poems recently published in Love in the Wintertime. Summer's Idyll, a novel, is a new departure for Don...