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Alex Boyd's first book of poems Making Bones Walk (2007) won the Gerald Lampert Award. His second book of poems The Least Important Man was published in 2012.

He has written for The Globe and Mail among other publications and helped establish Best Canadian Essays.

His first novel, Army of the Brave and Accidental, a retelling of The Odyssey as modern mythology, was published in 2018. A review described it as "timely, original, and profound," and it was shortlisted for the ReLit Award. ...more

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Take This for the Pain: Essays on Writing and Life

I published my first essay in the Globe and Mail in 1999. It was about working in a warehouse, and what a cold dose of reality it was after studying English literature. At the time, I thought “That was fun, but I’ll just write another essay when I think I have a really good idea for one.”

Here we are. My book of essays about faith, jobs, getting older, great books and the way life is changing

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	Army of the Brave and Accidental 3.97 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 2018 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Shy: An Anthology by Naomi K. Lewis (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Rona Altrows (Editor), Don McKay (Contributor) 3.93 avg rating — 28 ratings — published 2013 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Least Important Man 4.27 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 2012 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Best Canadian Essays 2009 by Alex Boyd (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Carmine Starnino (Editor) 4.25 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2009	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	I.V. Lounge Nights by Myna Wallin (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Alex Boyd (Goodreads Author) (Editor) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2008	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Making Bones Walk 4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2007	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Best Canadian Essays 2010 by Alex Boyd (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Kamal Al-Solaylee (Editor) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2010	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“When he stumbles in the trench / his hands cut into mud like dough. / Surrounded by puddles, rats, lice." -- The Baker Signed up, 1914”
― Alex Boyd, Making Bones Walk

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“Blood is shy, all day hiding in you and asking the same worried questions.”
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“As the late Edward W Said wrote after the attack on the World Trade Center, ‘Western humanism is not enough: we need a universal humanism.’ I agree with that. The question is how to get it, and my own view is that it can’t be had unless we raise our demands on ourselves a long way beyond decorating our lives with enough cultivation to make the pursuit of ambition look civilized.”
― Clive James, Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts

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“I'm OMAC! Evacuate this section! I'm going to destroy it!”
― Jack Kirby

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“The woods would be quiet if no bird sang but the one that sang best.”
― Henry van Dyke

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“That we are mostly quarks and water, but still feel joy is a bona fide miracle. Blood hymns in sunshine. Joy plunges its little dagger of shivers over and over, into our hearts. Joy is the surprise, after the surprise, after apocalyptic narratives. I’m for joy getting its own Nobel Prize.”
― Chris Banks, Deepfake Serenade

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