Songs in Blue Minor

Entitled Songs In Blue Minor, the collection uses a musical metaphor emphasizing Cantelon's belief that sometimes the quieter, more complex and emotive themes are the true foundation that holds the major themes together.

This is Cantelon's second collection of poetry and continues to showcase his attention to meter, rhythm and structure. Cantelon's first collection, Psalms of Bone & Sinew, ever so briefly was Amazon's #1 book in the Canadian Poetry category. It should be noted the journey from psalms to songs is intentional and relfects something of the author's own journey. Most of his poems are free verse with a mix of rhyming and what he calls free-rhyme (a mix of free verse and rhyme in a single poem). Cantelon's influences have been many and diverse including but not limited to Margaret Atwood, Irving Layton, Sappho, Charles Bukowski, Edgar Allan Poe, John Donne, and more recently international poets such as Japanese poet Kenji Miyazawa, Persian poet Forough Farrokhzad, Rupi Kaur, Noor Hindi and Amanda Gorman.

His poems have been published in various and sundry journals and magazines including Poetry Scotland, Synaesthesia, Bricolage, Geez and the award-winning Lakeview International Journal of Literature and Arts.

Cantelon started writing poetry early in life when he was discovering amazing writers at the Bookshelf Café in Guelph, Ontario where he first heard the great Canadian author Timothy Findley read (and got his first author's signed copy of a book). Cantelon has had a passion for writing and poetry that has lasted his entire life (so far). If there is a single, uninterrupted thread in his experience it is writing.

Cantelon lives with his wife Megan in Morden, Manitoba, Canada where he is as an award-winning newspaper columnist and executive director of the non-profit The Jubilee Fund.