Bonfires Bruce McIvor This is the book of

This is the book of a man who has died more than once and who carries with him knowledge of the point where being’s blaze touches nothingness

’ Nick Thran’s subtle

with pockets / full of garbage

and the characters and wharf rats loom so much larger than life

at a time when movements like Idle No More call for a national inquiry into the missing and murdered Aboriginal women

Bonfires Bruce McIvor This is the book ofDescription Bringing Canadian poetry back to the achingly honest tradition of John Newlove and Bronwen Wallace, Chris Banks eschews linguistic showmanship, sketching in deft strokes the foreignness of things familiar. Framed within the rural landscape of southwestern Ontario and Al Purdy's "country north of Belleville," Banks turns his pen to modern life and the small domestic urgencies that arise from it. This is a landscape we are all familiar with