Dearly Canadian Culture or smushing her pickle sandwich

or smushing her pickle sandwich

and point the plane up in the air to fly

who was lost beneath the sofa cushions and then broken in two after Dad sat on him

When Flaxfield the great wizard dies

and a good-night kiss

Dearly Canadian Culture or smushing her pickle sandwichNATIONAL BESTSELLER The collection of a lifetime from the bestselling novelist and poet. By turns moving, playful and wise, the poems gathered in Dearly are about absences and endings, ageing and retrospection, but also about gifts and renewals. They explore bodies and minds in transition, as well as the everyday objects and rituals that embed us in the present. Werewolves, sirens and dreams make their appearance, as do various forms of animal life