Borrowed Rooms

By Barbara Pelman

These poems, spare and nuanced, explore the borrowed rooms we inhabit in personal relationships: the temporary homes of marriage and parenting; the personas we carry for a little while and must ultimately abandon. In tight and unsentimental poems, Barbara Pelman grieves the death of a father, notes the changing dynamics of mothers and daughters, watches the doors irrevocably close on a marriage, and delights in the temporal beauty surrounding her: the simple splendour of garry oak and hawthorn, arbutus branches bent to the shape of wind, and the stutter of shoreline.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1553800613
• ISBN13: 9781553800613
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: Ronsdale Press
• Length: 90 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 8.8"