Brian Bartlett has published sixteen collections and chapbooks of poems, along with three volumes of nature writing and a gathering of prose on poetry. He edited selections by Maritimers Dorothy Roberts, William Bauer and Robert Gibbs, and Alden Nowlan’s Collected Poems. Bartlett grew up in New Brunswick, where his friendship with Joseph Sherman began over half a century ago and since 1990 he has lived in Kjipuktuk/Halifax. His most recent collection is The Astonishing Room.