A Ship Called Destiny
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From the back cover:
Peter Trower's recent collected logging poems Chainsaws in the
Cathedral: Collected Woods Poems with an introduction by the late Al Purdy, was
recently selected for the BC 2000 honour.
"There is no one who writes like Peter Trower. And now I have to say how he
writes, which isn't very easy....And there is life itself the winning and losing, loving
and hating; blood running among the words; sweat greasing commas and periods. And Wow, the
way that Pete handles words. They jump through hoops for him, turn somersaults and even
seem to arm wrestle with each other." Al Purdy, Introduction to
Chainsaws in the Cathedral
"Trower's poetry has the ring of an authentic but tuneful working-class Dylan
Thomas.... The Vancouver Sun
Peter Trower has a way with words that other poets envy. Despite years of logging and
street-life, Peter Trower is a sensitive and skilled love poet. The poems of this
collection are poignant and personal, but never sentimental, telling the story of a
life-long romance. Peter Trower has a reputation for uncompromising toughness, but in A
Ship Called Destiny: Yvonne's Book, he reveals the passionate and tender side to his
nature. Known primarily as a logging poet, no one evokes the mystery and majesty of the
B.C. wilderness better than Peter Trower. In these poems, however, Trower realizes the
"soul's completion," a pervading sense of unity. Trower is among the finest and
most eloquent poets of British Columbia, and no where is that more evident than in these
love poems.
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