The Truth of Houses by Ann Scowcroft - Thirty-Nine (Brick Books) - Brick Books Poetry Map (sitios de interés)

Ann Scowcroft has been a professional writer and editor for many years, and was an academic for a few. She has a PhD in Applied Linguistics and presently works in the field of humanitarian assistance.

Quebec is home base. The Truth of Houses is her first book. At once wise and achingly at a loss, Ann Scowcroft’s The Truth of Houses is an elegant debut collection.

While very intimate—even startlingly intimate at times—the voices of these poems are constantly taking a step backward, wrestling for a measure of distance and perspective.