The Land Beyond, is on a double edge: the geographical edge of Canada - Vancouver Island and the City of Vancouver - and the edge of loss and despair always in, and sometimes overtaking, our lives. The Land Beyond flips from childhood memories to car crashes with the precision of a switchblade. Rader's poems are creepy tales of grieving and memory, giving the West Coast imaginary a stark, almost rustic gothic as it is hardly ever seen. The poems are about what happens beyond a given time, place, or incident, beyond the past and present, beyond memory, despair, or fear, beyond the last line.

Read a review by Brad Cran here: http://www.geist.com/books/land-beyond