Poetry. SPIRIT ENGINE is a collection of acutely observed poems that are meditative in the true sense: these poems go deep and they go fast. In them you will find no gulf between the mind and spirit, between natural and human consciousness. John Donlain's poems seek and find the engine that makes the spirit run. Here, we are the ghost in the machine-it is the natural world that drives our thoughts and desires as they flare up in a rush of transformative beauty. John Donlan is writing some of the most beautiful poems we have"-Ken Snyder. The author of three other poetry collections, Donlan lives in Vancouver and Kingston, Ontario.

Donlan lives in Vancouver half the year, where he works as a reference librarian for the Vancouver Public Library. For the other six months, he lives on a lake north of Kingston, Ontario, surrounded by 177 acres of wilderness. Spirit Engine is his fourth collection of poetry.