The Thin Smoke of the Heart Volume 6

Praise for previous books: "Its a pleasure to read a book of poems that does even a few things well. But its a deeper pleasure to read one that does many things well. Tim Bowlings second collection, Dying Scarlet, belongs to the latter category." The Fiddlehead "There is a resolve, a high moral purpose to everything Bowling is doing here, coupled with a compelling melancholy and an astounding level of artistry. With his grasp of the human condition and his lyric gifts, he has the tools to become not just a good poet, but a great one." Arc "What Bowling begins so well in Low Water Slack is expanded in Dying Scarlet so that he pulls ... much of twentieth-century poetry under his wing. This is a poet whose learning is a pleasure to be part of." Malahat Review "Tim Bowlings first book, Low Water Slack, is a rare find. Accomplished, assured, and stocked with memorable imagery, it trumpets the presence of a huge new talent." The Antigonish Review "Buoyantly optimistic and rich in imagery, these poems movingly depict rare moments of beauty in an otherwise harsh existence. Especially astonishing is the maturity of Bowlings vision, the breadth of his reading, and his ability to combine the abstract with the pragmatic in poems that shimmer like the scales of the salmon he describes, particularly when he is writing about death. Its bloody and its wonderful." Event "Bowlings poems exceed expectations. His universe, suffused with the flux of water, is wondrous." UBC Chronicle