"Poems... When Called For" arrests readers' attention sometimes with unrelenting focus; sometimes with whimsical regard; sometimes with language analogous to 'averted vision', as when a thing seems invisible until one looks slightly to the side. Here you find: nature/cosmos as confidant/saviour; aging and dementia; childhood trauma; family language and silence; indigenous homecoming; love found and lost; a transcendent moment between parents facing separation, the blessings and curses of personal and collective memory, and in the end--"if an end there is to be"-- reconciliation with the uncertain meaning of it all. "Poems...When Called For" offers the perspective and reflections of a man in his senior years, a father, a pilgrim of space and time ruminating from ocean-side on his home island of Newfoundland. Effervescent phrasings, playful ironies and readiness to challenge literary convention maintain the poignancy, fun and freshness first poem to last., poetry, pittman, newfoundland, fatherhood, divorce, young love, Kevin Pittman| 9781775091936 | 80PAGES