"I loved Marius Kociejowski’s poetry not because it was Canadian but because of his quite remarkable ear. Line by line it does amazing things, and he feels and thinks deeply and draws in the wake of his poems a huge amount of material rather than a birdless silence. Norm Sibum’s work I loved not because he was Canadian, which in a sense he isn’t, but because he wrote the kinds of poems I always wanted to be able to write with big narratives, differentiated voices, that were rooted in things I valued and attitudes I valued." Michael Schmidt • Canadian Notes & Queries

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