Lise Downe

This Way Lise Downe

Poetry. The poems in THIS WAY are an alternative take on the genre of detective fiction. In them we uncover an assortment of clues and the task of sorting out the essential from the superfluous; the real from the imagined; the inside from the out. As in our daily lives, in spite of all the "evidence," there is no familiar sense of direction.

"Downe's writing uses the qualities of colloquial speech?hesitation, interjection, digression and repetition?to convey the experience of writing as an unforseen progression. Favouring intuitive progress over linear intention, these vivid, painterly poems reflect the dynamic between the known and the unknown."?Darren Werschler