Brian Bartlett has published seven collections of poetry (including The Watchmaker’s Table and Wanting the Day: Selected Poems) and two books of prose (Ringing Here and There: A Nature Calendar and All Manner of Tackle: Living with Poetry). His writing has won numerous prizes, including the Atlantic Poetry Prize, The Malahat Review’s Long Poem Prize and the Acorn-Plantos Award for People’s Poetry. Bartlett lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where he teaches at Saint Mary’s University.