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 Available from Pedlar Press: Glen Downie practises the prose poem, that “monster child of two incompatible strategies, the lyric and the narrative” (as Charles Simic puts it) with a sure sense of the way its nimble subversions can unsettle and … Continue reading →

Open Book is celebrating National Poetry Month with daily profiles of today’s “unacknowledged legislators of the world.” Find Glen Downie’s interview at: http://www.openbooktoronto.com/news/poets_profile_glen_downie

Available from Wolsak and Wynn Publishers Glen Downie, with characteristic generosity and freshness of purpose, leads us on a walking tour of the world we have constructed. … I find myself being drawn back to LOCAL NEWS again and again, … Continue reading →