Samantha Baldwin a review of All the Daylight Hours by Amanda Jernigan Cormorant Books Inc., 2013 ISBN 978-1-77086-261-6 Boil a cup of tea, grab your favourite slippers and sit by the fire. You’re about to read Amanda Jernigan’s All the Daylight Hours (Cormorant Books Inc, 2013). However, don’t get too comfortable, Jernigan takes the reader on an epic journey where mythology, fairy tales and literary theory are your trusty companions. Divided into four parts, the first two sections rely heavily on mythopoetics. However, the literary and Biblical references take a rest in the last two sections of the book. Here, the reader is invited into a more intimate setting with the speaker. Jernigan explores themes of marriage and pregnancy in a way that would make Ezra Pound proud. She has managed to make these old themes feel fresh. In her poem, “Encounter,” she likens the speaker’s ultrasound image to that of a globe, “I felt myself grow small, the air grow thin, /as if you were the one adrift in space, /and you the one …