Tamarack & Clearcut

Tamarack & Clearcut is the result of a collaboration between two artists of rare gifts. In it, a series of photographs of huge and original impact moves in tandem with a powerful sequence of imagist poems. As you savour these images, visual and poetic, you become increasingly sensitized to the city, that hub of human habitation, as it exists in its particular natural setting. This book chronicles the deep and necessarily abiding connection between urbanites and their natural world. Although the place is Ottawa, the truths and beauties it illuminates are universal, for here, as everywhere, it is the earth itself that nurtures us.

Of Marianne Bluger's earlier work, Judith Fitzgerald has written, "Whether she examines natural phenomena or illuminates human nature, it is abundantly clear that a powerful sensibility is at work in these poems." David Suzuki has called Rudi Hass, "an artist with a magical touch ... a genius." Haas has produced many works in film, books, animated shorts etc. and collaborated extensively on projects with native peoples in both Canada and Africa. He has received numerous honours, including the Art Directors Gold Medal Award.