All Souls' - Softcover

Rhea Tregebov is a poet, creative writing teacher, and writer. She is the author of six acclaimed books of poetry and the historical novel The Knife Sharpener’s Bell. She has written children’s picture books and edited numerous anthologies. Her work has received the J. I. Segal Award, the Malahat Review Long Poem Prize, the Pat Lowther Award, and the Prairie Schooner Readers’ Choice Award. She lives in Vancouver, British Columbia.

“[Tregebov] can be recommended not only to the only people poets suspect ever read their work (other poets) but also to all those greater multitudes who customarily don’t, and among these, in particular, to parents, nurses, doctors, and gardeners.”  —Elizabeth Harvor, author, Fortress of Chairs and Let Me Be the One

“Holding her elegiac lens up to life, Tregebov shows how, in our fragile world, even traditionally joyful subjects are compromised, tinged with loss. . . . With Strength of Materials, Tregebov joins the ranks of distinguished Canadian elegists such as George Bowering, Dennis Lee and Jan Zwicky.” —Canadian Literature

“For decades Rhea Tregebov has been writing poems of penetrating honesty. At their core is a deep familiarity with the necessities of love; inconsolable loss, inconsolable hope. . . . The clarity of her voice is deeply moving, a voice at home in its skin, entirely aware, deeply compassionate.  —Anne Michaels, author, Fugitive Pieces

“Tregebov is a wonderful writer who uses the lyric poem of comment and description to a nobler end than most of its other adherents do.”  —Vancouver Sun