Winner: 2017 Canadian Authors Association Award for Poetry 2018 Fred Cogswell Award for Excellence in Poetry Finalist: 2017 Pat Lowther Memorial Award A new poetry collection from the Giller Prize-winning author of The Sentimentalists and Quartet for the End of Time.   In The Description of the World Johanna Skibsrud brings us to the edges of dreams - and waking. With lines that are searching, but spacious, she deftly turns over ideas of perception and reality, inviting us to join her as she releases the abstract figure from its painting, or brings the poet in from the wilderness. This is a collection about possibility. The possibility of language and naming, of dropping - or not dropping - an atomic bomb, of giving birth, of love.