Breakfast at Mel’s: and Other Poems of Love and Places

by Douglas Lochhead

Never has Douglas Lochhead’s work been so focused on life’s physicality. Exultant or downcast, playful or meditative, the poems in Breakfast at Mel’s and Other Poems of Love and Places grasp and hold what is real to the senses. This zest for life, along with the technical brilliance readers have come to expect of Lochhead’s work, makes Breakfast at Mel’s a collection of superbly crafted poetry that will appeal to the heads and hearts of a wide spectrum of readers.

104 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 1997

About the author

A Senior Fellow of Massey College, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and Professor Emeritus, Lochhead received the 2005 Carlo Betocchi Poetry Prize, the Marie Tremaine Medal, and the Queen Elizabeth II Silver Jubilee Medal. His collection "High Marsh Road" was short-listed for the Governor-General's award for poetry.