House Dreams, Deanna Young's haunted and haunting third collection, is at once a core sample of the life we all live underground, and a view beneath the foundations of the various eras and places that make up one woman's life story. These poems have the plainspoken power, surreal shifting, uncanny logic and transformed everyday imagery of our most numinous dreams. It's as if Jung's assertion that "[w]hen an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate," is taken up here as a reading guide back through time.

Deanna Young's previous collections are House Dreams (Brick Books, 2014), nominated for the Trillium Book Award for Poetry, the Ottawa Book Award, the Archibald Lampman Award, and the ReLit Award; Drunkard's Path (Gaspereau Press, 2001); and The Still Before a Storm (Moonstone Press, 1984). Born in the village of Lucan in southwestern Ontario, she grew up there, in neighbouring townships, and in the nearby city of London during the 1970s and '80s. Reunion belongs to that place and time. She now lives in Ottawa, where she works as an editor and teaches poetry privately.

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[Often] in Young's poems, what begins as a gentle game of the lyric imagination shifts mid-sentence into nightmare… [Her] eye for fallibility is the book's real trick. It will be re-read compulsively by its admirers.

Jacob McArthur Mooney