Bad Ideas Gillian Wigmore in that it effortlessly slides

in that it effortlessly slides back and forth between Harvey and Robinson's life

stories and anecdotes from a veritable Who's Who of CanLit

Jay Ruzesky creates and re-creates Eden -- its passions

There is a reason

a raging libido and the weight of the world on his shoulders

Bad Ideas Gillian Wigmore in that it effortlessly slidesDescription 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