Pluviophileampampnbspveers through various poetic visions and traditions in search of the sacred within and beyond language. Its poems continually revitalize form imagery and sonancy to reconsider the ways we value language beauty and body. The collection houses sonnets and other shorter poems between larger more meditative runes. One of these longer poems ampampldquoThe Place Words Go to Dieampamprdquo winner ofampampnbspThe Malahat Reviewampamprsquos 2016 Far Horizons Award for Poetry imagines an underworld where words are killed and reborn shedding their signifiers like skin to reenter a symbiotic relationship with the human where ampampldquosaxumampampnbspis sacrificed and born again asampampnbspsaxifrage.ampamprdquo From here the poems shift to diverse locations from Montreal to Kolkata from the moon to the gates of heaven.