This third volume in McFadden's Terrafina Trilogywhich began with Gypsy Guitar and There'll be Anotheris shaped by a wealth of poetic forms.
David W. McFadden began his writing career as a journalist, and is the author of numerous volumes of non-fiction, fiction and poetry, including Gypsy Guitar (1987), which was nominated for the Governor General's Award in 1988, There'll Be Another (1995), and the third volume in his Terrafina Trilogy, Five Star Planet (2002). His most recent book of non-fiction available from Talonbooks is Great Lakes Suite (1997). In 2013, McFadden won Canada's most prestigious award for poetry, the Griffin Poetry Prize.