Where Genesis Begins is a collaboration of two of Newfoundland's foremost artists: Tom Dawe, a profoundly visual poet, and Gerald Squires, a profoundly poetic painter. The book contains thirty-seven poems by Dawe, twenty-nine of which have not been published before, and seventy-one artworks by Squires. The book opens with an essay by Martina Seifert of Queen's University in Belfast and closes with an afterword by poet, novelist, and essayist Stan Dragland of Newfoundland.