DEEP TIME is a portrait of an artist pushing the outer limits of his imagination. At a time when humanity is destroying its habitat on an unprecedented scale, award-winning poet and essayist Christopher Dewdney embarks on a voyage through Deep Time that puts humanity’s brief existence on this planet into staggering perspective. Ranging far beyond the perimeters of our species—from fossilized imprints of Earth’s earliest life forms to visions of a transhuman future—we follow Dewdney on the ultimate field trip to four corners of the Earth, each representing one of the classical elements of nature: Earth, Water, Air and Fire. His odyssey takes him from coral reefs to a live volcano, from a dinosaur dig in the Montana Badlands to a space telescope in the Andean desert. And ultimately to the indigenous roots and oceanic pre-history of his Ontario home.