Darkness and Silence Product Form:Paperback / softback In these short fictions timing

In these short fictions timing is everything

and ultimately onto an 1878 race track

--Douglas Barbour

in which he is just as likely to inform little plastic men found under the couch that "grief/ is the other side/ of the pleasure your faces speak of" as he is to relate the astonishment of looking into the night sky and realizing "Oh my God

ca/Books in Canada First Novel Award

Darkness and Silence Product Form:Paperback / softback In these short fictions timingDescription In his fourth collection of poetry, Tim Bowling continues his exploration of loss, heartache, joy and wonder. Employing a supple lyricism that is at turns tender and fierce, he draws on his experiences as a father and son, on his memories of childhood, and on his journeys into landscape as ways to explore the deep mysteries at the heart of consciousness. Darkness and Silence moves from the lush riverscape of BC's south coast to the eerie