"The language of Jen Hadfield''s poetry is one of incantation and secular praise. Her first book, Almanacs, was a travellers''s litany, featuring a road movie in poems set in the north of Scotland. Nigh-No-Place is the liturgy of a poet passionately aware of the natural world." "Nigh-No-Place reflects the breadth of ground she''s covered. ''Ten-minute Break Haiku'' is her response to working in a fish factory. ''Paternoster'' is the Lord''s Prayer uttered by a draught-horse. ''Prenatal Polar Bear'' takes place in Churchill, Manitoba, surrounded by tundra."--BOOK JACKET.