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Matt Rader grew up in the Comox Valley on Vancouver Island. He is the editor of Mosquito Press and the co-founder of Crash: Vancouver’s Indie Writers Fest. He studied writing at the University of Victoria and the 2003 Banff Writing Studio. His poems and chapbooks have received praise from many quarters, including sub-TERRAIN, Broken Pencil, Geist and This Magazine. In 2004, he was selected for Breathing Fire 2: Canada’s New Poets, edited by Lorna Crozier and Patrick Lane. His first book, Miraculous Hours, was shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award for best first book of poetry.
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Living Things:
0889712239 · March 2008 · $16.95
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Miraculous Hours:
0889712018 · April 2005 · $16.95
on the front porch striking matchsticks with our thumbs
the quick report of light doused out with our tongues,
it’s the trick that speaks volumes: forget phosphorus, friction
the miracle of combustion, it is how you hold fire
in your mouth then snuff it out like idle conversation—
–from “Miraculous Hours” |
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