Return to Book Page Praise for Never More There Excerpt from Interview with Rob Mclennan

Never More There By Stephen Rowe AVAILABLE 0-88971-239-5 Nightwood Editions 5.5 x 8.0 · 88 pages Paperback · $17.95 October 2009 "One of a new generation of Newfoundland poets who are inspired by the riches of their culture, Stephen Rowe casts a meditative eye on the world about him." —Mary Dalton "Again and again while reading Never More There I was struck by arresting lines and images, by Stephen Rowe's rigorous attention to the natural world and the world of words. Eloquent and passionate, Rowe is poet of real promise." —Michael Crummey Rowe's poetry is able to capture the feelings and physical reactions one has to nature and sound. He is also quite skilled in realistically personifying nature as well as connecting the material sense of nature to our mental reality. Moreover, there is an overall sense that the author is connecting much of the fragility and evanescence of nature to the mortality of life. Themes of death and dealing with loss become even more prevalent towards the end of the book. The author also dips a bit into the supernatural and mythological with personal elegies and references. As well, Rowe subtly explores the relationship between father and son, ancestry, and how things change over time. —Jennifer Musgrave, The Argosy