Peter Trower was born at St. Leonard's-on-Sea, England, in 1930. He immigrated to British Columbia at age ten, following the death of his test-pilot father in a plane crash. His mother married a West Coast pulp mill superintendent who drowned soon after. Trower quit school to work as a logger for twenty-two years. Since 1969, he has published more than a dozen books of poetry--from which poems were selected for Haunted Hills & Hanging Valleys: Selected Poems 1969-2004--and contributed to several issues of Raincoast Chronicles and Vancouver Magazine. Poetry collections such as Moving Through Mystery (1969), Between the Sky and the Splinters (1974), The Alders and Others (1969) and Ragged Horizons (1978) express his admiration and resentment at the magisterial power of nature. He has written three novels about the West Coast logging life: Grogan's Cafe (1993), Dead Man's Ticket (1996) and The Judas Hills (2000). In 2002, Trower was awarded the George Woodcock Lifetime Achievement Award and had his name added to the BC Writers' Walk of Fame outside the Vancouver Public Library in recognition of his contribution to BC literature. He lives in North Vancouver, British Columbia with his faithful cat, Hangup.
1 Accusations at the Graveyard 13
2 Carlotta and the Mouse 26
3 Hardball Between Floors 36
4 Dead Man's Ticket 50
5 The Fog Loggers 61
6 The Evacuee 72
7 Breaking the Code 83
8 On Rich Men's Turf 95
9 The Meanstreet Shuffle 107
10 The Junkyard and Points East 117
11 Welcome to the Club 128
12 A Change of Address 139
13 Lady on the Lam 149
14 The Errand Boys 160
15 The Lowdown 170
16 Showdown at the Junkyard 181
17 The Mousetrap Snaps 192
18 The Living Reflection 205
19 Dialogue with the Doppelganger 217
20 The Errand Boys Deliver 227
