Evenings on Paisley Avenue: Seven Hamilton Poets

This book is the debut of seven talented writers who are just beginning to be widely published. Anyone who grew up in Hamilton or lives there now will recognize many of the locales of the poems, but there is also universal appeal and a wide range here: work that is by turns lyrical, humourous, quirky, soulful. The local and the personal are interwoven with mythology and history.The poets are Laura Gillis, Kimberly Dawn, Birgit Elston, Paddy Chitty, Elizabeth Tessier, Sandra Lloyd and Pauline Hewak.