Alan D. Butcher
Alan D. Butcher was born in Vancouver, B.C. and has been writing all his life. He has written advertising materials, worked in the Canadian Arctic, and wrote and produced The Chase Almanac for 25 years. His previously published books include I Remember Haida (Lancelot Press, 1985), Ale & Beer (McClelland & Stewart, 1989), and Unlikely Paradise: The Life of Francis Gage (Dundurn Press, 2009). Alan has three additional books in progress: a novel, a memoir, and an urban social history book. He has won the 2010 Donald Grant Creighton Award for Best Biography from the Ontario Historical Society for his book Unlikely Paradise: The Life of Francis Gage. Alan lives in Cobourg Ontario. He is a member of the Writers' Union of Canada.
Books by Alan D. Butcher
About the Book
The Silence of the North is a poetic reflection of Canada's least known and most enigmatic Arctic region. Alan Butcher challenges our notions of landscape and wilderness, culture and perception, the limits of experience, and the nature of being. He offers a finely wrought sensibility, which elevates the subtle topography of life’s quiet events. At once atmospheric, with a surreal blend of emotion and memory, The Silence of the North is a fluid and ever-shifting landscape of possibilities. These poems are restless and inquisitive. They echo a desire to forge a voice that is as curious as it is distinctive. This poetry collection will appeal to all lovers of poetry, particularly those who enjoy striking imagery linking the quotidian to the universal.
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