His poetry and short fiction have appeared in many journals and anthologies, including Rocksalt, An Anthology of Contemporary BC Poetry, and Tesseracts 18. He is the founder and editor of Ascent Aspirations Magazine, since 1997. A brave book."ĭavid Fraser lives in Nanoose Bay, on Vancouver Island. The sepia of nostalgia creeps like a mist over these poems, yet the sharpness of his memories, imagined or otherwise, keeps the reader from lulling into complacency by asking that we confront, time and time again, our own human frailties and our own mortality. It is as if David has shed a hundred skins, let everything fall away until he could see matters with a naked, raw clarity, speak of things directly and unflinchingly. "Having admired David Fraser's poetry for years as he wonderfully manages to hallow small everyday moments, After All the Scissor Work Is Done came as a surprise. But these are not pretty pieces: the poems scrape at the dark of human experience. David Fraser steers away from linear narrative, edits out connections, allows the reader room. Plays with memory, finds out what's left on the cutting-room floor. Our bookstore "Ships Immediately." Shipping is always freeĪfter All the Scissor Work Is Done has been shortlisted for the ReLit Award.
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