Soldiers Undertakers School Teachers Ghosts

By Gerald Arthur Moore

A murder in a small Ontario town. A girl on a motorcycle. A stolen guitar. The hardscrabble lives of students who never had much to begin with. And a father-son relationship that casts its shadow across decades. These are the coordinates of Soldiers Undertakers School Teachers Ghosts, Gerald Arthur Moore's first collection of selected poems--one that moves between the intimate and the elemental, the local and the mythic, often returning to the particular textures of small-town Ontario where so much of this work was born. Moore's preoccupations are universal even when his settings are specific: love and its failures, loss and its long aftermath, the stories we inherit and the ones we can't escape. His students' lives--lived on the margins, rarely given space on the page--find voice here with clarity, tenderness, and unflinching honesty, carried in the rhythms of a poet who has spent a lifetime paying close attention. Soldiers Undertakers School Teachers Ghosts is a collection about the people and places that shape us, and about what remains when the noise of living finally quiets.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 183427012X
• ISBN13: 9781834270128
• Release Date: April 2027
• Publisher: Now or Never Publishing Company
• Length: 170 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.0" x 8.0"