The Names: Poems

From Governor General's Award-winning poet Tim Lilburn comes a collection of poetry of great scope and ambition.

The Names is personal and familial archaeology, an extemporal dig giving spectres back to their bodies. With its lines sped up and dazzlingly associative, Tim Lilburn’s cocktail of obsessions—confession, ontology, mystical theology, humour and extreme, fleet, apt weirdness—marches through on full display. He pulls in an even broader cast of characters than his previous collection...