Running with Scissors

by Andy Brown (Editor), George Elliott Clarke (Editor), Meg Sircom (Editor)

These are poems of bubble gum and dictators, kleptomaniacs and CD players left on repeat. A bulimic is watched by her cat, a grandfather dies and becomes a favourite colour, a frustrated lover shops at the 7-11 for forty days and forty nights, two girls make out in a bomb shelter, an ecstatic grandmother cranes her neck out the window of her heron-blue Mercury.

76 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2001

About the author

Andy Brown is the co-editor of You & Your Bright Ideas: New Montreal Writing (with rob mclennan, Véhicule Press) and Running with Scissors (Cumulus Press), the latter co-edited with Meg Sircom.

He is the author of the short story collection I can see you being invisible (D.C. Books, 2003) and the novel The Mole Chronicles (Insomniac Press, 2006), as well as founder of the acclaimed small publishing house Conundrum Press.

Reviews

[Autumn]

This is turning out to be a very "different book"