Bonfires Bruce McIvor part-dreamer - telling it like

part-dreamer - telling it like it is about cultural contradictions

Murray has a powerful ability to synthesize disparate ideas within a poem

to sing off-key into the screams of semi-trailers and cars

5 in - 168 pp

Bonfires Bruce McIvor part-dreamer - telling it likeDescription 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