#travelsend: poems @ travel's end

Acclaimed poet Darryl Whetter has recorded a series of trips to Southeast Asia and Australia in a poem cycle that is trenchant, funny, touching, and self-revealing.
 
Travel is inseparable from storytelling, although travel, these pressing poems worry, may contribute more to the climate crisis than it solves. Wry, loving, and witty. these poems offer one journey after another.
 
Whetter’s poems are arresting, genuine, full of science and wonder.
— Donna Morrissey, author of Rage the Night

He frequently places his characters in a personal cul-de-sac, a very brave thing to do. His combination of theme and style is very admirable.
— Alistair MacLeod, author of Never Die Wondering

[H]e can pin down his insights with wonderful precision [ranging] from dispassionate perception to an abrupt and moving burst of emotional truth.
— The Globe and Mail