Cartography

In Cartography, her fifth collection of poetry, Rhona McAdam weaves an imaginative passage through the territories of love, work, family and aging. The world of her poems is completely and evocatively imagined, with humour and humanity, and traces the poet’s own movements, from England through Europe and back to Canada. With a mature and original command of her craft, she reveals sensitivity to form, and to the ways in which rhyme and meter can enrich a poem.

“These poems cover the gamut of concerns… in an Anne Tyler sort of way. There is absolutely no fuss.” – Today’s Book of Poetry