Woman with a Man Inside Product Form:Paperback / softback or even the most obvious

or even the most obvious

and family in Central Saanich

his second collection

is an assemblage of seemingly disparate materials--the poems are of various lengths

it is something we are constantly re-living in our minds

Woman with a Man Inside Product Form:Paperback / softback or even the most obviousDescription Skeptical and feminist, funny and disturbing, Barbara Parkin's stories expose the truth about her characters' lives: some rugged, some pastoral, all humming with danger and beauty. Philipa struggles to define herself outside her mother's fantasy that she will marry royalty; Lena confronts the women who tormented her when they were girls; Joy looks all over for somewhere to call her own, and finds herself in the house of her childhood.