The Volcano's High Held Snow Note

Praise for The Volcano’s High Held Snow Note

“At once austere and lush, vast in scope and in love with particulate beauty, the voice of The Volcano’s High Held Snow Note is extraordinary, and utterly new.” —Roo Borson

“This book is astonishing, prodigious, terrifying. So bold, so well wrought, as shocking as a sleepwalker with a chainsaw. We are weeping from a lethal wound we cannot treat but for the theurgy, the stunning moral power of these poems that turn the soul around. Tim Lilburn is a living master.” —Peter O’Leary

“Ripe with memory and mourning, Lilburn’s poems give us the mountain, the land and its denizens, in language as glinting, as iridescent as the hummingbird’s scarlet throat. There are notes of warning here, shot through with joy.” —Emily McGiffin, author of Into the Continent

TIM LILBURN lives in the Bowker Creek watershed in W̱S NEĆ territory on Vancouver Island. He is the author of twelve books of poetry, including Harmonia Mundi, The House of Charlemagne, The Names, Assiniboia, Orphic Politics, Kill-site, Moosewood Sandhills, and To the River. His poetry has received the Governor General’s Award, the Canadian Authors Association Award, the European Medal of Poetry and Art (the Homer Medal), and the Saskatchewan Book of the Year Award, among other prizes. His poetry has been translated widely.

Lilburn is also the author of three earlier essay collections, Living In The World As If It Were Home, Going Home, and The Larger Conversation: Contemplation and Place, and editor of two other influential books on poetics. A new essay collection, Numinous Seditions: Interiority and Climate Change, appeared from the University of Alberta Press in 2023.

He has taught at the University of Victoria, the University of Saskatchewan, and Middlebury College, and worked with the dance company New Dance Horizons as a writer and performer, collaborating with directors Edward Poitras and Robin Poitras. He has been the poetry editor for Grain and was one of the founders of Jackpine Press.

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