Rumours of Snow

First published in Woodnotes #16, Spring 1993, page 30.

Rumours of Snow by anne mckay. Wind Chimes Press, 1992, 68 pages, paperback, 5½ by 4¼ inches. $5.00 postpaid from the author at Studio B, 1506 Victoria Drive, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, V5L 2Y9 [address no longer correct]. A marvelous collection of renga with 16 other writers. Always fresh, anne’s voice rings true once again in this essential collection of linked lines. A sample from the first renga, with Charles Dickson:

and just beyond loon’s hollow rumours of snow mckay

night marsh the limpkin’s forlorn cry dickson