It Is Solved by Walking

Winner of the 2012 Governor General’s Literary Award for Drama.

After learning of the death of her former husband, Margaret begins to unearth the blissful and painful memories of their marriage, all through the lens of Wallace Stevens’s poem Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird. Bold and poetic, It Is Solved by Walking is an intimate portrait of a writer making her way back to poetry one step at a time.