Anne Szumigalski was fearless.

And funny. A delightful harmonization of Brit and brat, her free-thinking, freedom-loving spirit was groomed in the proprieties of merry old England by a Pagan mother and an Anglican father before the Second World War. Anne, with a notable reputation in literary circles around the world, had a mind and vision as broad and open as the adopted prairie landscape she so loved. RAPTURE OF THE DEEP, CANADIAN POET, ANNE SZUMIGALSKI is a free-ranging portrait of this major Canadian poet, based largely on interviews in Saskatoon shot shortly before her death April 22, 1999, at the age of 77. In those interviews, Anne’s brilliance shines as she talks about poetry, compost, and ways she embarrassed her children. Her life’s accomplishments were many –publications, awards, notoriously outrageous dances –but what she did, though significant, pales beside theway she did things. Poet? Yes. Personality? In spades. RAPTURE OF THE DEEP, CANADIAN POET, ANNE SZUMIGALSKI is about an unforgettable woman’s epic passion and joy for life.