Ghost Oracle
$50.80
- Paperback
96 pages
- Release Date
7 September 2026
Summary
Douglas Burnet Smith’s poems transform echoes of history and myth into moments of insight, bringing the ancient and contemporary worlds of Greece into vivid, often surreal collision
In Ghost Oracle, a Santorini “dream reader” slices open the poet’s palm with a thorn and analyzes the blood pattern; Athenian subways rattle under the Acropolis as protesters are teargassed in the streets; hooded specters rise out of a blaze of poppies at a café beside a 3,000 yea…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781779401472 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1779401477 |
| Author: | Douglas Burnet Smith |
| Publisher: | University of Regina Press |
| Imprint: | University of Regina Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 96 |
| Release Date: | 7 September 2026 |
| Weight: | 170g |
| Dimensions: | 140mm x 216mm |
| Series: | Oskana Poetry & Poetics |
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Critics Review
“Smith is a poet who opens his eyes as a way of opening heart and mind…with only sparing gestures, he shows how the ordinary modern world anachronistically revives ancient myths.”—Keith Garebian, author of Enigma Elegy
“Ghost Oracle’s magnificent lines, like the birds that unstitch his skies, loosen the page and release the colours, scents, and textures of Greece around you…a beautiful work of art and poetry at its finest.” —Patrick Woodcock, author of Farhang and You can’t bury them all
Douglas Burnet Smith
Douglas Burnet Smith is the Governor General’s Award–nominated author of 18 books of poetry. He teaches at St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia and divides his time between Atlantic Canada and Athens, Greece.
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