A Year of Last Things: Poems Sophie Blackall Your “smart but scattered” child

Your “smart but scattered” child might also have trouble coping with disappointment or managing anger

Nightcrawling marks the stunning arrival of a voice unlike any we have heard before

But instead of sending him to the art school of his dreams

Darleen Busby-Platt

A Year of Last Things: Poems Sophie Blackall Your “smart but scattered” childFrom one of the most influential writers of his generation, a gorgeously surprising poetry collection about memory, history, and the act of looking back Following several of his internationally acclaimed novels, A Year of Last Things is Michael Ondaatjes long awaited return to poetry. In pieces that are sometimes witty, sometimes moving, and always wise, we journey back through time by way of alchemical leaps, unearthing writings by revered masters,