Point No Point

In Point No Point, Jane Munro’s fourth collection of poetry, she turns her gaze on the men in her background — a bold, obstreperous father; an artist-grandfather; a disappearing brother — and on her move from the city to the wilds of Vancouver Island.

“Point No Point’s title comes from a landform — an actual point on the west coast of Vancouver Island, which seems, when approached from the other side, to be no point at all — and it alerts us to the fact that Jane Munro’s poems are situated in a deep sense. They live in situ in the way they inhabit their native place, intimate with its mists, its mosses and lichens, with the salmonberry and false lily-of-the-valley of their ecosystem. They are also situated temporally, evoking sharply etched memories, visions, and dreams: a real-time visit to her father’s boatyard, a dream visit with her mother from a time before the poet was conceived, a flashback to the sixties rendered in extreme close-up. … Her gifts as a poet — acuity, candour, musicality — make Point No Point a work of unforgettable witness.” — Don Mckay

“Lyric, contemporary, steeped in memory …. Munro is a versatile poet. She moves with ease between prose poems grounded in memory and free-form lyric…. Superb….” — Jeanette Lynes, Globe and Mail