Who Else in the Dark Headed There

In his first collection since the Governor General's–nominated Prologue for the Age of Consequence, Martens adds an autobiographical lens to his concerns about class and labour.

A mother disappears. A son struggles to make sense of the life she left behind. Set against the stark northern Alberta of the 1980s and 90s, Who Else in the Dark Headed There follows a man reaching through time to find the child he was and the father he is becoming.

Beneath this waking world is another world, of the o...