Reviews

• "Potent and persuasive" City Lights, San Francisco • "eloquent and erudite" CBC • "...(his) poetry crackles with prophetic energy" Canadian Literature • "...another Whitman has taken root in Canada" Shakespeare and Company, Paris • "...a major voice has emerged" Poetry Canada • "...an astonishing lyricist" George Elliot Clark, Halifax Herald • "...a ruthless truth-telling poet...a tour de force" Poetry Australia • "The kind of poem that should not have been able to be written..." Gary Geddes • "...a display of verbal pyrotechnics such as I've never seen before" Irving Layton • "A ferocious subversion of cliches...an impressive emotional and metaphysical reach" Desmond Maxwell, Ireland • "Poetry that induces a state of reverie" Varsity Review • "...strongly crafted with a mature serious voice" The Georgia Straight • "...hailed as 'another Ginsberg'" Globe and Mail • "...lucid and intelligent" Stephen Forster, Printed Matter, Japan • "pristine...(his) precise language and metrics do their job" Quill and Quire • "...epic in proportion and bound for posterity" Graffito, University of Ottawa • "powerful and controlled...its sparse economy, is its beauty" Kingston Whig-Standard • "At the end of the millennium, a clear and authentic voice" REC, Belgrade