Description: Heather Browne's first collection is the work of a mature poet in full control of her metier. Her poetry is sensuous, delicate, full of gesture, evocative of dance -- and at the same time sense and compelling.
Brief description: Heather Browne Prince is a former teacher and co-ordinator of the Maritime Writers' Workshop. Since 1986, poems now collected in Knowledge in the Hands have appeared in the Fiddlehead, Canadian Woman Studies, TickleAce, Pottersfield Portfolio, and other journals. "A White Gift" won the 1990 Alfred G. Bailey Award.