Waiting for the Gulf Stream is a book that crosses many boarders, both stylistic and physical. He travels deftly between a resonant lyricism and a language grounded in the narrative line; the poems move from meditations on the poet's early life in Texas to spaces where the natural world and human turmoild come into conflict. Here is an assured and accomplished voice that engages the reader as participant. With humour, agility and grace Almon leaves the reader holding in the mind something rich, active and alive. In Waiting for the Gulf Stream, Almon confirms his place in Canadian poetry as an inhabitant of the quiet, yet devistating turn, that is delivered here with unmistakable wit and insight.