All Souls' - Softcover

"[Tregebov] can be recommended not only to the only people poets suspect ever read their work (other poets) but also to all those greater multitudes who customarily don't, and among these, in particular, to parents, nurses, doctors, and gardeners." --Elizabeth Harvor, author, Fortress of Chairs and Let Me Be the One

"Holding her elegiac lens up to life, Tregebov shows how, in our fragile world, even traditionally joyful subjects are compromised, tinged with loss. . . . With Strength of Materials, Tregebov joins the ranks of distinguished Canadian elegists such as George Bowering, Dennis Lee and Jan Zwicky." --Canadian Literature

"For decades Rhea Tregebov has been writing poems of penetrating honesty. At their core is a deep familiarity with the necessities of love; inconsolable loss, inconsolable hope. . . . The clarity of her voice is deeply moving, a voice at home in its skin, entirely aware, deeply compassionate. --Anne Michaels, author, Fugitive Pieces

"Tregebov is a wonderful writer who uses the lyric poem of comment and description to a nobler end than most of its other adherents do." --Vancouver Sun

Bluesy, opinionated, sly, self-chastising, and tender, Rhea Tregebov’s first collection since 2004 commands a range of tones wider and bolder than anything in her previous books. Inspired by crises both personal (divorce, adult children, aging parents) and societal (global warming, financial implosion), this collection bracingly addresses the quandary at the heart of our present moment: the fear of change and the fear of standing still. Enriched by a sharp palate and crackling with confidence, Tregebov’s new poems capture life in all its rueful aspects—and do so with a lyricism of considerable beauty and power.