The Seven Wonders of the Leg

George Whipple has been called 'a poet's poet' and his most recent volume, The Seven Wonders of the Leg, reveals the truth of this statement. Now in his eighties, Whipple casts an observant eye on life, love, memory and mortality in poems that startle with both lyricism and wry economy. Divided into seven sections, this thirteenth published book of poems from Vancouver's George Whipple, celebrates the poet s devotion to craft while mining the human dimensions of being for spiritual essence. Touching, humourous and, at times, exalted, The Seven Wonders of the Leg places George Whipple in the pantheon of Canada's most revered poets.