The Ground of Events, Barbara Carey's third book of poetry, leads the reader gently into the intimate politics of women's lives in a compelling journey through doubt and hope, probing the ways in which our social surroundings construct human identity.
"Pulsing with intelligence, crafted with precise elegance and originality, these poems reveal the grief, tenderness, and endurance present in the briefest of encounters, in the most fleeting of memories."? Carole Corbeil

Barbara Carey is the author of The Ground of Events (Mercury), Undressing the Dark (Quarry, 1986), and The Year in Pictures (Quarry, 1989) (which was shortlisted for the Trillium Award and for the Pat Lowther Award). Her poetry has been heard on CBC and BBC Radio, and has been anthologized in Poets 88 and Hard Times. Her work has also appeared in literary periodicals across Canada, including Poetry Canada and The Malahat Review, as well as in the U.S., in The American Voice. She lives in Toronto.

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