The Comfort of Stone: New and Selected Poems

The Comfort of Stone is a collection of finely crafted free verse and lyrical poems that trace the author's intimate recollections of her life experience and family history. The old stories told around the kitchen table become reality as personal journeys take Groundwater home to the historic landscapes of the Orkney Islands and the Scottish Highlands. Later, memories of a childhood immigration to Canada become touching and evocative poems set in "the new world." As more pages of this amazi...