Poetry. In LOVE OUTLANDISH, Barry Dempster undoes all the cliches that have barnacled our love lives and, with the zest and courage typical of his work, explores their torrents and eddies afresh. As in his previous books, Dempster responds to D.H. Lawrence's plea that we should discover and articulate what the heart really wants rather than some idealized version of it. Thoughtful, passionate, full of humor and self-aware wit, Love Outlandish delivers, again and again, the shock of recognition that permits us to laugh at, and with, the very emotions it probes. This is a book to relish for its energy and cherish for its wisdom.

Author City: Holland Landing, ON CAN

Barry Dempster is the author of two volumes of short stories, a novel, a children's book, and nine previous collections of poetry, the most recent of which, The Burning Alphabet, won the 2006 Canadian Authors' Association Jack Chalmers Award and was nominated for the 2005 Governor General's Award for Poetry. Born and raised in Toronto, he presently lives in Holland Landing, Ontario, where he runs a film series, two book clubs and a writing group.