Prior to her stunning first novel, 'Fugitive Pieces', Ann Michaels had already won prizes and wide acclaim for two poetry collections: 'The Weight Of Oranges' (1986) which was a critical sensation and won the Commonwealth Prize for the Americas; and 'Miner's Pond' (1991) which received the Canadian Authors Association Award, and was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award and the Trillium Award.
'Skin Divers' is Anne Michaels' eagerly awaited collection of new poems. These poems are meditations on how love changes in order to survive, how we move form "obsolete science" to new perceptions, how "the same loneliness that closes us/opens us again".
