Bonfires Bruce McIvor with pockets / full of

with pockets / full of garbage

where “saxum [is] sacrificed and born again as saxifrage

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

constant reminder that "other people do this better

5 in - 168 pp

Bonfires Bruce McIvor with pockets / full 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