Allan Safarik is a poet who is driven by the love of language as much as by the external world. By discovery and singing he brings us a world we identify with and rejoice in. Always peculiar, always imaginative, these poems echo the language and concerns of poets like Newlove and Birney. Here is the world of the imagination and the world of the rugged and beautiful West Coast landscape.The Day is a Cold Grey Stone brings together new and selected poems set in and inspired by the West Coast. Safarik, has published two remarkable books of poetry from the prairies, Where Light Falls from the Sun and Yellowgrass.With The Day is a Cold Grey Stone Safarik's poetic journey has come full circle. Very few Canadian poets have written with such confidence and strength on two distinct regions of our country. He is one of very few who lay poetic claim to both the West Coast and the prairies.The Day is a Cold Grey Stone is a work where the geography of the imagination is as vibrant as the one before the author's eyes and the one beneath his feet.