In Wait, relationship and reflection are drawn on to free emotion and understanding from fear, whether it would grow in praise of passion or cooling love, or arise from being trapped by power or lost to indulgence. The poems in Wait seek to cut through the dishonesty and abuse that skew life.

Ned Baeck lives in Vancouver. His poems have recently appeared in The Continuist, untethered, sewer lid and The Ottawa Arts Review. Wait is his first full-length collection of poems.