“Belford is a delight. [His poems] read with the kind of inevitability of image and rhythm that makes other poets grit their teeth with envy.”
—Margaret Atwood

Ecologue is the culmination of Ken Belford’s lifelong quest to reconcile land and language, innovation/development and earth’s geographical history, nature and humankind’s place within it. He extends this deep contemplation to the relationship between poem and reader, deftly shaping his lines into a pure expression of where “ritual and mystery loiter, beyond supervision and the noise of the narrative.”