"This book stretches us towards deep time with immediate presence and tender precision. Such brilliant offerings and necessary reminders of our humanity, Singh’s poems place us in companionship with the limber and the lithic, an interspecies assemblage from the minuscule to the massive. I’m grateful for how Singh brings together so many beloved poets and beings, so spaciously yet intimately, through The Time of the Earth.”—Rita Wong, award-winning author of forage

“These poems are profound and elemental: a ‘water language’ that dissolves, rushes, laps, meanders through time and varieties of silence into the unlit, unattainable, prelinguistic reaches of consciousness. A breathtaking collection.”—Julie Sedivy, award-winning author of Linguaphile: A Life of Language Love

“Jaspreet Singh’s poems nourish our contemplation of the ephemeral and the eternal, the pebble and the mountain, water and its hidden language. Within this state of intense receptivity, mysteries of deep time unfurl alongside the import of everyday objects. The result of his poetic concentration is an uncanny realignment — ‘how close yet how invisible’ — of the world around us.” —David Martin, award-winning author of Kink Bands

“This book is an exquisite invitation to become absorbed in the flow and loops of experience. It offers us lines and imagery to return to, time and time again.”—Alice Major, award-winning poet of Knife on Snow

“Jaspreet Singh’s precision with word and line reflects the rigour of this thought when he writes ‘a voice/ repeats how inseparable we are from what we see/ as separate.’ Singh threads imagery of the present time, geologic time, and water time, reiterating the brevity of human time throughout this new collection.”—Marilyn Dumont, award-winning author of that tongued belonging 

“A Keats for the Anthropocene, Jaspreet Singh reclaims Negative Capability as poetry’s mandate. Sometimes “I,” sometimes “he” or even “you,” Singh’s speaker is polymorphous and polyphonic, a shapeshifting listener. His very line and stanza spacings expand our shrinking world by suggesting proximities and distances contrary to our colonial notions of what belongs to whom. The simplest domestic acts, the smallest bodies, contain the cosmos. ‘Bees dream . . ./This is all we know/and all we can ever know.’ This is the beautiful poetry we need now.”—Natania Rosenfeld, author of Wild Domestic and The Blue Bed 

“The Time of the Earth brims with vivid experiments in versification, imagery, and typography. A virtuoso work, it shimmers as the crowning achievement of Singh’s kaleidoscopic trilogy on the poetics of deep time.” —Raji Soni, lecturer in English at the University of Toronto

“Jaspreet Singh’s The Time of the Earth is a clear-eyed and eloquent examination of complicity and survivorship in the climate crisis. His poems hold political upheaval, social crisis, and environmental devastation in close and vital conversation; they attend to an unfolding awareness of the past and lay it alongside the bright shiv of the impending future in ways that spark both beauty and irreconcilable longing.”—Jenna Butler, award-winning author of Revery: A Year of Bees