FORTHCOMING
"poetry at its best" -- Books in Canada
"The poet has given us much to sink our teeth into: a thoughtful, coherent package where each poem works in its own right and, in some cases, either echoes a pervious one or foreshadows one to come. And he does so without being manipulative, without grandstanding or resorting to the clever, look-at-me antics of lesser writers. This, to me, is craft at its finest." -- Carolyn Marie Souaid, The Montreal Gazette
"Between the Walls is an impressive collection, low-key in demeanour but high-powered in effect." -- Barbara Carey, The Toronto Star
"The poems are sharply observed and pitch-perfect; by turns, they can make you squirm or laugh....Overall, reading The Fat Kid is like looking at masculinity and our cultural obsession with appearance in a funhouse mirror. It's both warped, and wise." -- Barabra Carey, The Toronto Star
"Vermeersch’s writing is clear and powerful. The Fat Kid should be required reading in high-school English classes."-- Susy Webb, Textually Active, Discorder Magazine
"Vermeersch transcends time and self through luminous turns of language and singular states of mind." -- Karl Jirgens, Canadian Literature
"His writing is more terse than Bringhurt's, less political than Purdy's, but the best of these poems hold their own in that company." -- Kevin Connolly, Eye Weekly
A celebration of the most unlikely, outrageous and important gathering place in modern Canadian writing, with contributions from Dennis Lee, Eurithe Purdy, F.R. Scott, George Galt, Joe Rosenblatt, Margaret Atwood, George Bowering, D.G Jones, Sid Marty, Steven Heighton, Howard White, David McFadden, David Helwig, Janet Lunn, Paul Vermeersch, Michael Ondaatje and others.
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