Bad Ideas Mark Winston Not since Ken Babstock has

Not since Ken Babstock has such a poet arrived

not the scarcity our culture pretends

Together they explore the world of Canadian poetry in the new millennium: what's changed

The Pat Lowther Award (2014)

Bad Ideas Mark Winston Not since Ken Babstock hasDescription Nobody knows bad ideas quite like Michael V. Smith. In his new collection of poetry, he speaks to an intangibility of sense, or a sense beyond the rational. Bad Ideas explores the inevitability of loss and triumph with characteristic irony and tenderness. Through this dazzling collection of a remembered life, hung out to ogle like laundry on the line, Smith recalls a mother who discovers a sex tape, a man who dreams of birthing his own son