Desire Never Leaves

Alison Calder has published widely on Canadian prairie literature and culture, including critical editions of Settlers of the Marsh and Over Prairie Trails by Frederick Philip Grove, and Desire Never Leaves: The Poetry of Tim Lilburn. Her poetry collections are Wolf Tree and In the Tiger Park, and with Jeanette Lynes she is the co-author of Ghost Works: Improvisations in Letters and Poems. She teaches Canadian literature and creative writing at the University of Manitoba.Tim Lilburn is the author of six books of poetry, including the Governor Generals Award-winning collection Kill-Site. He is also the author of a book of essays, Living in the World as if It Were Home, and the editor of two anthologies, Thinking and Singing and Poetry and Knowing.

``Lilburn stands in awe of, and has come as close as humanly possible to capturing, the magnitude and magnificence of creation.'' -- John Cunningham -- Arc Poetry Magazine, Volum 61, Winter 2009, 200901

• Desire Never Leaves: The Poetry of Tim Lilburn, selected with an introduction by Alison CalderForewordNeil BesnerBiographical NoteIntroductionAlison CalderNames Of GodLove At The Center Of ObjectsAllah Of The Green CircuitryLight's Gobbling EyeTheophany And ArgumentPumpkinsFervourino To A Barn Of Milking Doe Goats Early Easter MorningCall To Worship In A Mass For The Life Of The WorldElohim Mocks His Images For The Life Of The WorldI Bow To ItSpirit Of Agriculture, 1986In The Hills, WatchingContemplation Is MourningHow To Be Here?RestorationPitchThere Is No PresenceA Book Of ExhaustionKill-SiteThereAfterword: Walking Out of SilenceTim LilburnAcknowledgements