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Lorna Crozier is one of Canada's most celebrated living poets. She is an Officer of the Order of Canada, and her books have received numerous awards, including the Governor General's Literary Award for PoetryThe book celebrates the landscape of the Frontenac Arch Biosphere Reserve in Southeastern OntarioThe work of photographers Peter Coffman and Diane Laundy has been exhibited in galleries throughout the Maritime provinces and OntarioThe House the Spirit Builds features 37 full-colour photographs

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The House the Spirit Builds offers gorgeous synchronicity: the magic of one special place (Wintergreen), the grace of two sublime photographers (Peter Coffman and Diane Laundy), and the conjuring genius of a supremely gifted poet (Lorna Crozier). Much bigger than it looks, this is a book to savor-over and over again. -- Lawrence Scanlan, author of A Year of Living Generously The world might not need poetry, but the earth does-to substantiate it lyrically and redeem it from its current invisibility. By doing just that, these poems-in tandem with these photographs-constitute a worthy and beautiful tribute to Wintergreen, a place where the earth truly is seen, heard, felt, and protected. In the end, Lorna Crozier reminds us that living and creating well means following the example of the star-like ground flowers that choose `over heaven / this common patch of earth.' -- Steven Heighton, author of Afterlands

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Lorna Crozier is the author of several books including Small Beneath the Sky (Greystone, 2009), The Book of Marvels (Greystone, 2012), and What the Soul Doesn’t Want (Freehand, 2017), which was nominated for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Poetry. She is a professor emerita at the University of Victoria and an officer of the Order of Canada. She lives in North Saanich, BC. Peter Coffman’s photography has appeared in galleries in Canada and internationally, and in books and periodicals. He is the author and photographer of Camino(Wintergreen Studios Press, 2017) and photographer of Exploring the Capital (Figure 1, 2017). He lives in Ottawa, ON. Diane Laundy has been a photographer for over eighteen years. Her work has been exhibited in Kingston, Halifax and Almonte and is held in both public and private collections. She lives in Ottawa, ON. Rena Upitis is the founding president of Wintergreen Studios, a retreat located in the Frontenac Arch where much of the photography in The House the Spirit Builds was done. She is living in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, during 2018–2019 and lives permanently in Yarker, ON.

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