In his first full-length collection of poems, James Hawes explores themes as diverse as nature, travel, love, coleslaw and Steven Seagal, placing his subjects on equal ground, searching for empathy in even the most mundane of events. It is a book of memories of the everyday to the extraordinary and the sensations they arouse; finding humour where it can be found, but always taking time to ponder the mystery and miracle of it all.

James Hawes lives and writes in Montreal. His work has appeared in Grain, Quills, Stone the Crows!, Rogue Stimulus: the Stephen Harper Anthology for a Prorogued Parliament (Mansfield), and Another Dysfunctional Cancer Poem Anthology (Mansfield), as well as the chapbook Bus Metro Walk (Monk Press). When not writing poems he is happiest on a lake, in a fishing boat with his wife and two sons.