A murder in a small Ontario town. A girl on a motorcycle. A stolen guitar. The hardscrabble lives of students who never had much to begin with. And a father-son relationship that casts its shadow across decades. These are the coordinates of Soldiers Undertakers School Teachers Ghosts, Gerald Arthur Moore’s first collection of selected poems—one that moves between the intimate and the elemental, the local and the mythic, often returning to the particular textures of small-town Ontario where so much of this work was born. Moore’s preoccupations are universal even when his settings are specific: love and its failures, loss and its long aftermath, the stories we inherit and the ones we can’t escape. His students’ lives—lived on the margins, rarely given space on the page—find voice here with clarity, tenderness, and unflinching honesty, carried in the rhythms of a poet who has spent a lifetime paying close attention. Soldiers Undertakers School Teachers Ghosts is a collection about the people and places that shape us, and about what remains when the noise of living finally quiets.