Winner of the 2018 J.M. Abraham Poetry Award;
Finalist for the 2017 Governor General’s Award for Poetry

Poems that form an eloquent, searching contemplation of
“the warp and weft of being and nonbeing”

All the Names Between is Julia McCarthy’s third collection. Grounded in the experience of presence in which the external and internal meet, a crossroads of consciousness where “a language without a name / remembers us” and the poem is a votive act, All the Names Between reflects the shadow-light of being, of what is and what isn’t, of the seen and the unseen, the forgotten and the remembered; here “every elegy has an ode at its centre / every ode has an elegy around its edges.”

“It is Julia McCarthy’s incomparable eloquence as a poet to, as an experienced photographer might, wield darkness as an ever more powerful lens to reveal the intricate beauty of the world as she finds it. And it is with this extraordinary vision that McCarthy ushers us into her newest collection, All the Names Between, ‘where the dead gather like trees in their white coats’ and bats hover overhead, “lucifugal as ashes from invisible fires.” These are poems scintillant with vision and stunningly intimate—showing us page after page the full and exquisite measure of ‘night’s worth.’” —Clarise Foster, editor of Contemporary Verse 2

“Here is a book of meditations for even those immune to poetry, a poetry with no comfort zones. McCarthy takes readers to a world where the marriage between solitude and nature gives birth to memorable, haunting lines, where the mystery of poetry lies just between the words. I have no doubt readers will embrace this book as their own.” —Goran Simić, author of Immigrant Blues and From Sarajevo, with Sorrow