Bitter Lake Poetry but loves all provinces and

but loves all provinces and territories equally

runner-up for the Posner Poetry Book Award

Praise for his breakthrough novel The Man Who Lived Near Nelligan

all handled with impressive skill

the Canadian ambassador

Bitter Lake Poetry but loves all provinces andPast, present, and future collide when an unhappily pregnant, mid thirties woman visits her childhood home near the shores of Bitter Lake. Bitter Lake, Marika Deliyannides, Professional organizer Zoe Lemonopolous finds herself in her mid thirties, well employed, married to a sensible and kind if dull dentistand pregnant. Shes agreed to have the baby but cannot imagine herself as a mother. Although her life has all the hallmarks of the successful adult