Passionate, contemplative and inquiring, Later Findings is a fresh engagement with timeless matters of personal identity, interpersonal connection and our vital relationship to the natural world. We join the poet on his perennial quest for what might still be trusted and believed, as we contend with societal dysfunction, accelerating technological change and a deepening environmental crisis. At once palpably and metaphysically grounded, here is poetic redress for multiple evils: ample cause for the reader to linger over what these poems find.

“Incredibly contemplative and reflective, the image-laden poems in this collection are stunning. It seems that this deeply observing poet was less directing his words, but instead wonderfully describing life and world as if almost startled by the profound beauty surrounding him.”
– Bruce Kauffman, author of still arriving

“From the opening poem of Later Findings, "Begin Again," Allan Briesmaster presents the ‘findings’ of a life lived with love, desire, and the best of expectations. In lines that are sublime in their cadence, language, and structure, the voice of the book reveals itself and the world at the heart of his investigations with power and wisdom. Briesmaster shows us the life-well-lived gifts of self-examination and retrospection which are the hallmarks of his exquisite vision. Later Findings is worth finding and enjoying.”
– Bruce Meyer, author of Church Grammar and One Sweet Moment

 

Allan Briesmaster is a freelance literary editor and publisher. The most recent of his nine previous books of poetry are The Long Bond: Selected and New Poems (Guernica Editions, 2019) and Windfor (Ekstasis Editions, 2021). He has read his work, given talks, and hosted and organized poetry events across Canada. He lives in Thornhill, Ontario.


Allan Briesmaster is a freelance literary editor and publisher. The most recent of his nine previous books of poetry are The Long Bond: Selected and New Poems (Guernica Editions, 2019) and Windfor (Ekstasis Editions, 2021). He has read his work, given talks, and hosted and organized poetry events across Canada. He lives in Thornhill, Ontario.