On the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic it could be said that it has all been said already. Yet, Billeh Nickerson manages to find new ways to show the characters whose fate has crossed with the fated ship. Nickerson creates portraits of labourers, a laundress who never boarded the ship, and even a cat. The P.O.V. is pointed not at the glamorous Asters, or the many spectacular jewels, but at the potentially forgotten barber, or the embalmer’s daughter in Halifax. The strength in the poems are in the rhythms or the soft considerations of form, refrain, or rhyme. The work of the author is to point our eyes to the dim-lit corners of the ship with its list of groceries, nationalities of passengers, or even the pets enrolled in the dog show. The highest emotional impacts come from these unconventional portrayals, poems such as “The Wishing Well”, “Boy in Lifeboat 14”, “The Emlbamer’s Daughter”. These are Nickerson’s strongest works and where he does, indeed, say something new.