Description: "Centred around the Newfoundland Mi'kmaq experience in the wake of the controversial Qalipu First Nation enrolment process, Island wades through the fracture and mistrust that continues to linger in many communities. In this new collection, Douglas Walbourne-Gough expands upon issues of identity and history that he introduced in Crow Gulch, offering a deeply personal and equally beautiful exploration of Mi'kmaw and Newfoundland identity"-- Provided by publisher.
Review Quotes: "This is a collection made from staggering shifts of wind, straddling the threshold of living and co-existing, but also an invitation to rest on the forest floor, make a grassy bed, and let the soft bog of Walbourne-Gough's poetics cradle you. Island is a way home, a road back, a poetic pathway through settler colonialism into the wilds of contemporary western Ktaqmkuk." - Shannon Webb-Campbell, author of Lunar Tides