BOOKS, CHAPBOOKS, EPHEMERA

Anything But Hank!


A children's story in verse, co-written with Rachel Lebowitz and illustrated by Eric Orchard. Anything But Hank! will be published by Biblioasis in September 2008.

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Jailbreaks: 99 Canadian Sonnets


A one-of-a-kind anthology of Canadian sonnets, edited by me. Jailbreaks is published by Biblioasis.

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Review of Jailbreaks by Alex Good. (June 2008)

Interview with me by Nathan Whitlock, on the subject of Jailbreaks. (June 2008)

Review of Jailbreaks in the Winnipeg Free Press by Maurice Mierau. (June 22, 2008)

Review of Jailbreaks in The Walrus blog, by Jared Bland. (June 26, 2008)

Review of Jailbreaks by Kate Sutherland on her blog. (June 30, 2008)

Interview with me by Don Denton, focusing on Jailbreaks. (July 7, 2008)

A piece I wrote for Maisonneuve about Farrar, Strauss and Giroux's refusal to allow Elizabeth Bishop's "Sonnet" to be included in Jailbreaks. (July 11, 2008)

Commentary about Jailbreaks. (July 15, 2008)

Review of Jailbreaks by Barbara Carey in the Toronto Star. (August 17, 2008)

Unsettled


My first full-length collection of poems, distilled from seven-plus years of work as a cargo handler, agent and coordinator in Canada's Eastern Arctic. Unsettled is published by Insomniac Press.

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Feature article on me and Unsettled in the Charlottetown Guardian.

Audio recording of Montreal launch of Unsettled, Zeke's Gallery, October 21, 2004.

Review of Unsettled in Books in Canada 34:1 (January/February 2005)

Review of Unsettled in Atlantic Books Today 47 (Spring 2005)

Review of Unsettled in Lichen (Spring 2005).

Article on Unsettled in The Buzz (May 2005).

Review of Unsettled in The Chronicle Herald (May 15 2005).

Article in Tidings (University of King's College alumni magazine) in which I'm interviewed.

Review of Unsettled at The Danforth Review (October 2005).

Review of Unsettled in The Fiddlehead 225 (Autumn 2005).

Review of Unsettled in the University of Toronto Quarterly February 2006.

Audio recording of my reading in Montreal on the national Unsettled tour.

Interview with me about the Unsettled Tour at Northern Poetry Review, April 2006.

A short film made by my former First Air Cargo colleague and friend Gord Declerq, featuring two poems from Unsettled.

A recording of four poems from Unsettled at Authors Aloud.

A recording of several poems from Unsettled broadcast by 39 DoverStreet on shortwave radio, January 7, 2007.

Review of Unsettled on PoetryReviews.ca, July 2007.

Review of Unsettled at Book Reviews for the Average Joe (Summer 2007).

Review of Unsettled in The Nunatsiaq News, October 12, 2007.

An interview conducted by John Mutford, about Unsettled and other sundries.

Review of Unsettled at The Book Mine Set, February 15, 2008.

Review of Unsettled at My Tragic Right Hip, July 3, 2008.





Sealift





A 24-track CD of poems from Unsettled.

If you'd like a copy of Sealift, you can send me $10.00 (CAD) plus $2.00 for shipping & handling within Canada or $5.00 for international shipments. If you're in the USA or elsewhere, the same amounts apply in USD. Please contact me to arrange payment options (cheque, money order, paypal). If paying by debit/credit via paypal, please add $1.00 to cover fees; no extra funds required if transferring funds from your paypal account to mine. If you'd like a signed copy of Unsettled along with it, add $10.00.


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After the Blizzard



A limited edition chapbook published by Littlefishcartpress of Orono, Ontario in May 2008. It contains a sonnet corona I wrote in 2004.

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Read "After the Blizzard" at the University of Toronto Library's Canadian poetry site.



Ludicrous Parole







A limited edition chapbook of 100 copies published by Mercutio Press of Montreal in December 2005, with a second edition of 60 copies printed in September 2006. It contains seventeen poems, united by the idea of "voice": soliloquies, addresses, vernacular poems, and ventriloqual translations.


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Read a sample from Ludicrous Parole.

An interview of me, focusing on "The Exterminator's Song to the Silverfish," which appears in Ludicrous Parole.




Fool's Errand






A limited edition of 100 signed and numbered copies, published by Saturday Morning Chapbooks, March 2004. Fool's Errand is a sixteen-page chapbook, containing a baker's dozen of my poems.

OUT OF PRINT

Commentary on Fool's Errand








BROADSIDE

Achromatope











A limited edition of 100 signed and numbered copies, presented in a folded broadsheet format and printed on Arches watercolour paper, published by Frog Hollow Press of Victoria. "Achromatope" is a dramatic monologue in the voice of a colour- blinded painter, a verse adaptation of an essay by Oliver Sacks in his book An Anthropologist on Mars.

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Huginn & Muninn





A limited varied edition of twelve signed and numbered prints, combining lithographic and intaglio techniques on cotton rag paper, produced by Halifax-based artist and printmaker Margaret Flood.

Please contact me for ordering details.