The Rising Vanish, Derek Robinson’s first book since Still in the Dreamtime in 2001, resonates with ‘…the Beauty, deeper than Fear.’ Robinson is a sensual and alive poet deeply grounded in the natural world but given to metaphysical speculation. For Robinson, poetry is penetration to depth of experience. His work takes faith in meaning as its foundation and employs a number of forms ranging from couplet, haiku, quatrain, ode and monologue to affirm it. His poetry sings, questions, pries, and seeks to penetrate reality through surprise or metaphysical wit, and mines the difficult soil of dailiness for the joy that accrues from it. The Rising Vanish is a selection from a considerable number of poems composed over the past few years.

Derek Robinson is a poet of exceptional sensitivity and depth. Born in Vancouver, he moved to Victoria in 1980. His first book Child was published in 1975, followed by Twelve Poems. His work has appeared in a number of magazines. He published The Inner Shore in 1985 (a collaboration with Miles Lowry and Richard Olafson), A Cloud Edifice and most recently Still in the Dreamtime, all with Ekstasis Editions. He lives in Victoria, BC.

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