Donna Kane’s new book of poetry, Asterisms, (Harbour Publishing) is a beautiful collection that takes us out into the far reaches of the universe and close up to the pollen stuck to a bee’s feet “like grains of floor wax.” She investigates old adages like knocking on wood and explores the ramifications of bombing asteroids to see if we can deflect them. From a microscopic grain in her greenhouse to the vision of the James Webb Telescope at the Lagrange Point, she brings her keen eye and generous heart to make poems of amazing dexterity.

Virtually every poem is a love song to our world, though she’s not always so thrilled with what we’re doing to it. There’s humour and anger and worry here, but most of all love, the love that’s demonstrated by paying close attention to what our planet and the universe in which it exists offers.

To illustrate this, I’m sending all of you “Cleaning up before you Go” in honour of Earth Day.  

Thanks, Donna.