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To John Pass and Theresa Kishkan, for the encouragement and advice over the years.

  To John and Nancy, for all your faith and support.

  And finally to Amy. For all the invaluable, essential reading and editing from the first draft to the last. For the life we share which makes this writing possible. For the ballast and the buoyancy, the strong and steady mooring.

  ABOUT THE AUTHOR

  Joe Denham is the author of two poetry collections, Flux (2003) and Windstorm (2009), and one novel, The Year of Broken Glass (2011). His work has appeared in numerous magazines and anthologies including Open Field: 30 Contemporary Canadian Poets, The New Canon: An Anthology of Canadian Poetry and Breathing Fire 2: Canada's New Poets. He lives with his wife and two children in Halfmoon Bay, BC, and works as a commercial fisherman throughout coastal British Columbia.