 [ Large Image ] | Six Mats and One Year Alison Smith 2003 / Poetry / $18.95 9781894031561 / Trade paper / 72 pp Over the past decade, countless young Canadians, lured by adventure and the promise of well-paid work, have travelled to Asia to teach English in the many private language schools that have sprung up there. Although these schools provide new opportunities for Asians by opening up Western language and culture, those who have travelled to Asia to teach have as often found themselves the students. Alison Smith’s poems chronicle her experience teaching English in Japan, exploring this cross-cultural exchange in the clear, unadorned narrative voice that typified her debut collection. To purchase this title: Add it to your cart Review: “Smith’s lyricism is precise, definite; yet, her work is fascinated by the indefinite.” George Elliott Clarke, Halifax Chronicle Herald | Other Books by this Author |  | This Kind of Thinking Does No Good Alison Smith 2018 / Canadian Poetry / $18.95 CAN 9781554471690 / Trade paper / 64 pp |  | Fishwork, Dear Alison Smith 2010 / Poetry / $5.95 CAN 9781554470907 / Pamphlet / 16 pp |  | The Wedding House Alison Smith 2001 / Poetry / $39.95 CAN 9781894031295 / Fine / 104 pp |  | The Wedding House Alison Smith 2001 / Poetry / $12.95 CAN 9781894031301 / Trade paper / 104 pp |
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