The book A Good Death is about opening the unmarked door. Insanity is recognized as the closest thing to death and madness like death is never selective. The book gives hints as to how to make a good death. In many of the poems death is near even if it is the death of love. There is an understanding of the changeability of life, personality and even the planet. The weather, landscape and cityscape are worked up into strong images. Many years of uncertain life in subsidized housing in Chinatown are chronicled. A Good Death reviews life from the not so sane side sometimes with humour. A woman’s perspective is looked at with intense language sensitive to the environment. There is the development of a relationship from beginning to end, the recovery from mental illness and the recovery of a lost child; all of which shape the poet. There is often rage at the poet’s situation and women’s situations. For the poet the Montreal Massacre is still very much alive. Always present is the change of seasons and images from nature; trying to find beauty where possible even in blemishes and the search to find new images for nature and human nature. Many of the poems show how mythology, folklore, and bringing up the unconscious affect the poet even if it is to create a dark odyssey with death in the sidelines.