Rishma Dunlop's Lover Through Departure features new and selected work from a lyric poet who has staked her poetic landscape in the sensual territory of love in the urban environment. Here are poems by a diasporic persona about

Rishma Dunlop was born in India and grew up in Beaconsfield, Quebec. She has published poetry, literary essays and translations, as well as edited anthologies. Lover Through Departure is her fifth book of poems. She has received awards, fellowships and prizes for her writing, including the Emily Dickinson Prize for Poetry and a Fulbright Research Chair in Creative Writing. In 2011, she was elected as Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Academy of Arts and Humanities. She lives in Toronto where she teaches at York University.

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Men push west and east and up and Carey Toane chronicles their folly. The Crystal Palace provides unsettling reminders that no corner of the earth is untouched by our need to roam and consume. How good it is to be redeemed by poetry, a tender song launched straight into the darkness.Ó (Lisa Jarnot, author of Black Dog Songs and Night Scenes)