Governor General's Award finalist Lynn Davies returns in a celebration of the enriching power of imagination with Where Sound Pools, reaffirming her reputation as one of Canada's most accomplished young poets. In this much anticipated second collection, Davies awakens a hidden sensory world and beautifully blends strength and understatement, observation and fancy, passion and playfulness. Where Sound Pools is filled with songs for movement — for old boots, skis, ice roads, a canoe — and acutely perceptive poems about people in action: children building snow tunnels, Giotto painting a fresco, a parking lot attendant retelling stories heard, each of which acknowledges how breakable human beings are and how easy it is to get lost. Inspired by everyday life, Davies sees the extraordinary in the ordinary.

Lynn Davies’s remarkable debut collection, The Bridge that Carries the Road, was a finalist for both the 1999 Governor General’s Award and the Gerald Lampert Award. Her poems are frequently broadcast on CBC Radio and have appeared in magazines such as The Fiddlehead and The Malahat Review and in anthologies such as Why I Sing The Blues, An Orange from Portugal, Listening With The Ear Of The Heart, Coastlines, and New Canadian Poetry. Originally from Moncton, NB, she lived in Dartmouth, NS, for more than a decade, where she obtained a BA in Honours English from the University of King’s College. An alumnus of both the Banff Writers’ Studio and St. Peter’s College in Saskatchewan, Lynn Davies now resides near Fredericton.

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"[Davies] has a knack for illuminating the unexpected in familiar territory . . . Where Sound Pools is a tribute to the transformative power of the imagination itself . . . Her greatest strength is to move fluidly between everyday life and flights of fancy . . . Such transport is typical of Where Sound Pools; it's full of poems that toggle back and forth between the otherworldly and the matter-of-fact with understated grace and good humour." — Toronto Star

"[Davies] has a knack for illuminating the unexpected in familiar territory . . . Where Sound Pools is a tribute to the transformative power of the imagination itself . . . Her greatest strength is to move fluidly between everyday life and flights of fancy . . . Such transport is typical of Where Sound Pools; it's full of poems that toggle back and forth between the otherworldly and the matter-of-fact with understated grace and good humour." — Toronto Star