Emilie Sion was fascinated by the connection between the spirit and the real world and her poetry can perhaps be considered a shamanistic revelation of this connection, showing us something we all know, but may not be able to see clearly or articulate directly. The Italian, French, and above all the British Columbia landscapes that she encountered, and the people with whom she shared her experiences, inspired much of her poetry. Her poems have appeared in a who's who list of Canadian, British and American literary journals, including Prism International, the Fiddlehead, Northern Light, The Far Point, Sou'wester, Canadian Poetry, Quartet, The Malahat Review, The Canadian Forum, The Antigonish Review, Aphra, and many others. "Emilie is moonshine on the back garden and sun on the front. She writes from childhood to motherhood with the mind of both, the wonder, never lost, of things ominous and mindboggling in their nuance and beauty. The only poet who truly compares with Emilie is Emily Dickinson. Then, did Emily ever stand with the 'ocean turning, pools deepening, small fishes hitting her legs'? There is the scope of far places of earth and mind in Emilie, a sense of European surreal and American, ordinary William Carlos William's 'red wheelbarrow in the rain' brilliance to her work. This is a bedside book, a poem before bed to dream on, and one to wake up to, take out and look at the world through Emilie's eyes." - George McWhirter, Vancouver's inaugural poet laureate