"completely claimed my imagination, claimed my vision, claimed my love". Lilburn's poetry in Moosewood Sandhills seemingly becomes intertwined with Robert Frost's iconic image of the deer amongst nature, but Lilburn separates himself from Frost's work by taking observance from a different perspective. In Lilburn's poems, lying down seems to encourage kinds of patience and contact unlike those found through that favourite, more familiar activity of nature poets, walking. (Brian Bartlett, "The Grass is Epic: Tim Lilburn's Moosewood Sandhills, in All Manner of Tackle: Living with Poetry [2017]). To The River - Written at the midpoint of Lilburn's career, To The River follows Lilburn as he returns to the banks of the South Saskatchewan River. Following thematically from Moosewood Sandhills, Lilburn describes his various stages of contemplation in the presence of a particular landscape. Lilburn's writing discusses the strangeness of the inhabitants of the riverscape and contrasts it with his acute familiarity with his local surroundings: willow, geese, river ice, coyote and snowberry. Going Home - Lilburn continues to explore his previous preoccupations from Living in the World as if Were Home, a book dealing primarily with both ecology and desire. Here Lilburn returns once again to Saskatchewan: "I realized that at forty, although I had been probed by many psychologists, spent eight years in Jesuit formation, read many books, I had done nothing to educate myself to be someone who could live with facility, familiarity, where he was born." He goes on to philosophize about this experience: "We need to find our way to take the place in our mouth; we must re-say our past in such a way that it will gather us here." Lilburn's explorations of his surroundings has clearly helped him to learn to be at home with his world. Bibliography Names of God (1986) Tourist To Ecstasy (1989), nominated for the Governor General's Award. From the Great Above She Opened Her Ear to the Great Below (1991) Moosewood Sandhills (1994) To the River (1999), winner of the Saskatchewan Book Award for Book of the Year. Living in the World as if it Were Home (2002) Kill-site (2003), winner of the Governor General’s Award. Desire Never Leaves: The Poetry of Tim Lilburn (2006) Orphic Politics (2008) Going Home: Essays (2008) Assiniboia (2012) The Names (2016) The Larger Conversation: Contemplation and Place (2017) References External links Conversation with Tim Lilburn Tim Lilburn visits the UBC 20th-century Canadian poets