Brian Bartlett

Brian Bartlett has published seven collections of poetry (including The Watchmaker’s Table and Wanting the Day: Selected Poems) and two books of prose (Ringing Here & There: A Nature Calendar and All Manner of Tackle: Living with Poetry). His writing has won numerous prizes, including the Atlantic Poetry Prize, The Malahat Review’s Long Poem Prize and the Acorn-Plantos Award for People’s Poetry. Bartlett lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where he teaches at Saint Mary’s University.



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Branches Over Ripples: A Waterside Journal
Brian Bartlett

2017 / Books & Reading, / $29.95
9781554471782 / Trade paper / 272 pp


Over two years, author and amateur naturalist Brian Bartlett sat down beside various bodies of water (bays, rivers, streams, lakes, waterfalls) to record his impressions, capturing both sensuous details of natural phenomena and reflections on his life and reading. Making a virtue of leisurely digression, Bartlett’s experiment in plein-air writing wanders beyond everyday personal journal-keeping into a meditation on the rich connections between the seemingly disparate experiences of our days, and on the enduring value of indulging our curiosity.



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Other Books by this Author

Safety Last
Brian Bartlett

2019 / Poetry / $4.95 CAN
9781554472055 / Pamphlet / 32 pp
Travels of the Watch
Brian Bartlett

2004 / Poetry / $4.95 CAN
9781894031974 / Pamphlet / 16 pp

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