HEAVY HORSE JUDGING. Summerhayes, Don. Saskatoon. Thistledown Press, 1987. 68pp. paper, ISBN 0-920633-34-X (cloth) $20.00, 0-920633-35-8 (paper) $8.95. CIP Adult /Secondary Reviewed by Barbara J. Graham Volume 16 Number 5 1988 September speak the ordinary words clearly without insistence choosing to say some common thing we have needed to hear over and over if only a message of simple greeting we recognize whose lives touch and move apart Using a variety of lyric and narrative forms, Summerhayes transports the reader across our country, remembering simple yet important experiences that have had meaning for him and may touch a responsive chord in us. He remembers Miss Arthur who taught both him and his mother, the pathos of the returned soldiers, his boyhood at the quarry pond, the graveyards, a coffee stop in a dying western town, driving across Saskatchewan. These imagist poems are sensitive and quite beautiful; the narratives establish an intimacy with the reader through recognized experiences expressed with deceptive simplicity. Barbara J. Graham, Board of Education far the City of London. London, Ont.