August Witch AUTHOR: Chandra Mayor ISBN: 1894177126 80Pages $13.95 CDN $13.95 US RECIPIENT OF THE EILEEN MCTAVISH SYKES AWARD FOR BEST FIRST BOOK BY A MANITOBA AUTHOR SHORTLISTED FOR THE MARY SCORER AWARD FOR BEST BOOK BY A MANITOBA PUBLISHER SHORTLISTED FOR THE CAROL SHIELDS WINNIPEG BOOK AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE JOHN HIRSCH AWARD FOR MOST PROMISING WRITER ABOUT THE BOOK: Chandra Mayor's debut collection of poems takes the reader into realms of problematic desire, revised domesticity and psychoanalytic complexity through texts that span diverse poetic terrain, from the lyric to the narrative-based long poem. what links all the poems in this collection is the theme of boundaries between self and other, desire and body, "breath and reason." Mayor's poetic voice is at once confessional, playful and linguistically sophisticated. Here is a book that confirms the most exciting aspects of the poetic process.This is a stunning debut collection of poetry.