Paul Vermeersch's Blog
September 15, 2025
Reviews for NMLCT are staring to come in!
Since the release of NMLCT on September 2, there have already been some reviews!
Chris Banks writes: "There is rigour and tension in these 16 line, formally-constrained poems, but also a sharp, restless and original consciousness that is the nucleus of this whole poetry collection. NMLCT encourages us to make new thoughts, new connections, new poems amidst the old abandoned computer code and made-to-sell cheap design work, amidst “the glitches” of background machine noise."
Read Chris Banks' review here: https://the-wood-lot.ca/2025/09/10/ra...
Selena Mercuri writes: "In NMLCT, Vermeersch creates a multimedia experience that mirrors the hybrid nature of contemporary digital life. The reader must navigate text, image, and code much as we navigate our daily digital environments. The poems argue for the irreplaceable value of human consciousness, intuition, and embodied experience in an age increasingly dominated by algorithmic thinking. NMLCT reminds us that the animal city, however threatened, remains our true home."
Read Selena Mercuri's review here: https://www.theseaboardreview.ca/p/nm...
Rob McLennan writes: "Throughout the collection, Vermeersch builds his bricks of lyric narrative in lengthy and even gymnastic lines, more oriented in propulsive, almost staccato, sound than in his prior work.... The tension is palpable, shifting between an optimism for humanity or sense of doom, interspersed throughout."
Read Rob McLennan's review here: https://robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025...
Chris Banks writes: "There is rigour and tension in these 16 line, formally-constrained poems, but also a sharp, restless and original consciousness that is the nucleus of this whole poetry collection. NMLCT encourages us to make new thoughts, new connections, new poems amidst the old abandoned computer code and made-to-sell cheap design work, amidst “the glitches” of background machine noise."
Read Chris Banks' review here: https://the-wood-lot.ca/2025/09/10/ra...
Selena Mercuri writes: "In NMLCT, Vermeersch creates a multimedia experience that mirrors the hybrid nature of contemporary digital life. The reader must navigate text, image, and code much as we navigate our daily digital environments. The poems argue for the irreplaceable value of human consciousness, intuition, and embodied experience in an age increasingly dominated by algorithmic thinking. NMLCT reminds us that the animal city, however threatened, remains our true home."
Read Selena Mercuri's review here: https://www.theseaboardreview.ca/p/nm...
Rob McLennan writes: "Throughout the collection, Vermeersch builds his bricks of lyric narrative in lengthy and even gymnastic lines, more oriented in propulsive, almost staccato, sound than in his prior work.... The tension is palpable, shifting between an optimism for humanity or sense of doom, interspersed throughout."
Read Rob McLennan's review here: https://robmclennan.blogspot.com/2025...
June 28, 2025
Please mark NMLCT "Want to Read"!
If you're seeing this blog post, it's probably because you follow me here on Goodreads.
My new book NMLCT: Poems is coming out this September. If you plan on reading it at some point, please go to its page on Goodreads and click on the "Want to Read" button!
More news to come, and thanks for being part of my Goodreads community!
Thanks!
My new book NMLCT: Poems is coming out this September. If you plan on reading it at some point, please go to its page on Goodreads and click on the "Want to Read" button!
More news to come, and thanks for being part of my Goodreads community!
Thanks!
