Walid Bitar Poetry Working from nature is what

Working from nature is what he loves best

Tony has been involved in the illustration of works by his wife

Running through all these drawings of cages and grids is a common theme: that what is inside an enclosure is not so much a part of the greater world held captive

Organized thematically into a roughly chronological narrative

wood engravings and watercolours of plants

Walid Bitar Poetry Working from nature is whatWalid Bitar, author of Bastardi Puri, was born in Beirut in 1961. He immigrated to Canada in 1969. He has taught English, most recently at Lebanese American University. His other poetry collections are Maps With Moving Parts (Brick, 1988), 2 Guys on Holy Land (Wesleyan University Press University Press of New England, 1993) and The Empires Missing Links (Signal Editions Vehicule Press, 2008). He now lives in Toronto.