Trinity uses experimental techniques such as collage, cut-up, erasure, and the (re)mixing of texts to explore three landmark works by the poet, novelist, and iconoclastic scholar Robert Graves: The White Goddess, The Greek Myths, and the famous Great War memoir Goodbye to All That. Inspired by Graves’s commitment to working with the “broken images” of a shattered world, Howard’s interlocking, dreamscape sequences pay creative tribute to the fierce, questing faith at the heart of the texts: a defiant fidelity to the deep, magical logic and restorative power of poetry and myth, even in an age of mass destruction, war on nature and perverted ‘progress.’

Sean Howard’s poetry has appeared in such journals as Geist, The Antigonish Review, The Fiddlehead, Prairie Fire, Descant, and Arc. His first book, Local Calls, was published in 2009. Originally from the United Kingdom, Howard now lives in the lobster-fishing village of Main-à-Dieu, Cape Breton, and is adjunct professor of political science at Cape Breton University.

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