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Rob Taylor

Rob Taylor is the author of four previous poetry collections, including Strangers and The News, which was a finalist for the Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. He is also the editor of What the Poets Are Doing: Canadian Poets in Conversation and Best Canadian Poetry 2019. He lives with his family in Port Moody, BC.

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[ Large Image ]	Weather Rob Taylor 2024 / Canadian Poetry / $25.95 9781554472635 / Trade paper / 128 pp Living with his wife and young children in a small apartment during the pandemic lockdown, Rob Taylor developed a habit of retreating to the wooded fringes of a nearby walking trail with a camping chair to do his work. “I needed that space in order to edit the writing of others,” writes Taylor, “but when time allowed I waited in that quiet, that wind and birdsong, for haiku.” A companion to his poetry collection The News, Taylor’s Weather was written over the first three years of his daughter’s life, chronicling the accumulative effect of intimacy and contemplation and revelling in the “small moments out of which we assemble our lives.” To purchase this title: Add it to your cart
	Other Books by this Author
	The News Rob Taylor 2016 / Poetry / $18.95 CAN 9781554471645 / Trade paper / 64 pp