‘David Solway opts for a bawdier approach to the lyric in The Lover’s Progress
The Angled Road (1952) and From a Seaside Town (1970)
though usually with grim undertones
and good and evil are being decided in the manner of a family living out its most ordinary conflicts
His stories have been featured in Coming Attractions 96 (Oberon)
A Game to Play on the Tracks Format:Paperback ‘David Solway opts for aA Game to Play on the Tracks by Lorna Jackson is the story of booze loose and too smart singer, Arden, and her failed return to the life of country music and the British Columbia bar scene. She has a new baby, some unhealed hurts, and a husband, Nichol, who is stuck in boyhood and thinks and talks in bad poems. Arden doesnt survive the road, and the story belongs then to Nichol and Roy the Boy, those left behind to search the west coast for a good