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Praise for: Into the Winter Wood _____________________________ Into the Winter Wood is a story of love and loss and finding your way back home. Like a song, its musicality carries us to places of darkness and to others, brilliant with light. It lilts with a gentle reverence of the natural world and all creatures who inhabit the geography of land, sea and sky. This is a book to own; one that is layered with new paths to follow. One reading simply won’t be enough. Sharon Bird, Saskatchewan poet ______________________________ These five-line poems, arranged in sequences, tell a story about a man, a woman, and their connection to each other and the earth: there are ways to discover what can't be seen. Joy McCall's voice, recognizable to many tanka readers, evokes an earlier, preindustrial time and place—she can trade/noisy machines/for tall silent trees—and we are delighted to have her as a guide back to where we came from and where we need to revisit: and she was lost/in the wonder/of seagulls/and hedge sparrows/and butterflies and bees. All these poems overflow with the tanka spirit: it has taken/a lifetime of searching/so I can bring back/these precious things/that are yours. Very glad she made this journey and returned with this tanka tale of what she found! David Rice, Ribbons editor 2012-2019