Undark: An Oratorio Michael V. Smith even the business of being

even the business of being a Canadian poet (if that's not oxymoronic)

Combining what the poet calls "thought-rhyme" with the structured sonnet form

and his storytelling compelling

where a whale is said to rise ‘like an arpeggio from the dark

Undark: An Oratorio Michael V. Smith even the business of beingDescription "Later we will laugh; shake moonlight off our clothes like ash. For now we stare at the clock. The day wears, tired as mechanism." from Undark Undark: An Oratorio is the highly anticipated second collection from Sandy Pool, whose debut book of poetry Exploding into Night (Guernica, 2009) was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award for poetry in 2010. In the early 1900s, thousands of women between the ages of 11 and 45 were employed