by Jack Myers

With great power, warmth, wisdom and skill, Michael Macklin's Driftland builds us a sturdy ark in which by candle-light of his spirit, we celebrate the gifts of this world while he guides us over the yawning depths of loss, change and death. His presence is reassuring and mature, a sure hand reaching down into the abyss

by Betsy Sholl, Poet Laureate of Maine

There is great wisdom in these poems - the wisdom of one who has thought long and hard, who is unafraid of love, grief, solitude, mystery, and all of the subtleties of the human heart. The knowledge Macklin has of work, of earth, machine and tool, is enacted in the music of these finely crafted poems. Like all good poems, they make us more alive - both to the world and what's beyond.