The Chimney Stone Alex Boyd Murray's poems reflect his growing

Murray's poems reflect his growing maturity and his interest in approaching writing as a profession and a craft

the fact that you wear a toque to go to Timmy's and pay GST on pretty much everything makes you uniquely qualified to solve these puzzles

and lend to the endearing quality of his stories

I would highly recommend Sonik to readers of fiction - and surely that recommendation must have something to do with originality

experience and contexts too often trod upon by a well-intentioned but ultimately condescending verse-style that seems to assume workers can't handle any syntax more complex than that found in an elementary-school book

The Chimney Stone Alex Boyd Murray's poems reflect his growingDescription In this eagerly anticipated follow up to his award winning, critically lauded debut, Rob Winger's sophomore collection, The Chimney Stone, bends the contemporary lyric into startling new shapes. Concentrating on a splendid mess of headlines, wars, politics, relationships and artistic influences, Winger's ghazals ask us how to negotiate the complex commitments and chaotic tumult of our dailylives. Making use of the ghazal's original address