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.. a much-needed compassionate wisdom for those—all of us—travelling into our planet’s uncertain future.

Critics and fellow poets have acclaimed his poetry. Patrick White wrote: “Henry Beissel is undoubtedly a Canadian poet of the first rank. He writes with the clarity and precision demanded of a strict imagist, and yet manages, without overburdening the issue, to give the image symbolic weight.” The late F.R. Scott said about his CANTOS NORTH: “The Canadian imagination, as elusive as the Canadian identity, is nevertheless a reality. Henry Beissel finds its constant source of strength and renewal in the wonder of our northland … This epic is the first to see it in its entirety, as a matrix which binds the whole together in a national mythology.” And Keith Garebian declared that “SEASON OF BLOOD is one of the most powerful, moving, lyrical triumphs in modern poetry.”