The Ocean

The Ocean is Donald MacLellan's third book of poetry. This volume reflects a period of the poet's career in which he shows a new confidence in his art. From his most personal experiences to his deepest social concerns, he writes with sincerity and a true appeal to the reader to engage in the transformative process which is poetry. And here too the poet's love of language has been transformed: there is still very much the sense of play which has always been his own, yet now with a fuller sense of irony. What the reader will find here is a poetic voice firmly in control of its material and confident in its mastery.