Released:
8 March 2012

Cover Artwork:
Jeremy Clarke, 'JS', pen and ink

Printing:
Gaspereau Press, Kentville, Nova Scotia | cover: letterpress on Pearl Grey handmade 140lb paper from La Papeterie Saint-Armand, Montréal, Québec | inside: offset on Domtar Cougar Super Smooth White 100lb text | composed in Wilke LT Std on 10 pt | hand-sewn and bound

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REVIEWS

"It's not fashionable to talk about 'taste' or 'decorum' in art any more, but, in the handling of this enormously personal subject matter, the poet definitely seems to be exercising fine taste. Both the work and the emotional self-mastery this suggests is admirable; certainly in contrast to the more openly 'confessional' art of our age.

The force of 'Train' is particularly striking, the decision to centre the lines of only this poem works to unnerve the reader. It confirms what the bullet imagery says: something is wrong here, literally out of kilter. And so, as with the initial meeting and the subsequent consummation, we are allowed but a glimpse of a narrative milepost, via oblique expression. The use throughout the sequence of shadows and odd angles, as it were, is powerful; in filmic terms, almost Hitchcockian (and, like him, dark)."
T. J. Adair

"These are beautiful pages; treasures."
Emily Young