Giving up the Ghost Non-Fiction not quite a week after

not quite a week after D-Day

he did graduate work in political science at McGill

‘Paul Glennon is a rare bird

2014) and biographies of Canadian poet Charles Mair

Avison’s published poetry up to 2002 was gathered into Always Now: the Collected Poems (Porcupine’s Quill

Giving up the Ghost Non-Fiction not quite a week afterGiving Up the Ghost maps the internal and external trajectories of a family navigating the grief that has sent them spiralling into their own separate orbits. Poignant but also at times comedic, their seemingly disparate narratives reveal how the despair and brokenness of a family in sorrow can lead to a place where hope and reconciliation are possible.