A finalist for the High Plains International Book Award in Poetry.
“These Creatures of a Day is a talisman against the mundane. It is a spell book for enchanting wild people, places, and beings with understanding, attention, reverence. Beaudin is one of our finest nature poets, and his writing—pure, authentic, and timely—is a call to humanity, a nod to ancestors, and a pure joy to read.” —CMarie Fuhrman, author of Salmon Weather: Writing from the Land of No Return
Published in April, 2024 by Foothills Publishing, this collection of 56 new poems from the author of Life List and Vagabond Song: Neo-Haibun from the Peregrine Journals, is “proof of a hard-won exploration, the footprints of a guy who’s been to the edge and made it back more or less in one piece, the precise, closely observed reflections of a human heart, as Faulkner said, in conflict with itself” (Allen Morris Jones, author of Mumblecusser and Other Poems).
“These Creatures of a Day is a moving collection that captures the essence of our multifaceted human experience. What Beaudin does best is grab the reader’s attention with a string of what seem to be ordinary occurrences, and then he flips them on their head. You can’t unsee the images, you can’t look away, and you can’t go back to thinking about the object or place or person in the same way again.” –Montana Quarterly
“Following the Music” interview in The Livingston Enterprise
Marc Beaudin 