Ivo Moravec Poetry With David Helwig

With David Helwig

Nick Tooke presents an uncommon coming-of-age story as well as a thoughtful examination of the meaning of home and family

In the Book of Hours

he spent a year in London working in a bookstore

and the University of London

Ivo Moravec Poetry With David HelwigIvo Moravec, author of Fordmates, is a former Ford employee who worked on the line at the St. Thomas Assembly Plant for twenty one years, and who has since become a unique voice in Canadian literature. Born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, he obtained a Master of Economics from the Economics University in Prague, then worked for the Research Institute and for a Ministry of Industry think tank as a researcher and analyst. In 1983 he defected to Austria, then