Rob Winger

Rob Winger’s first book, Muybridge’s Horse, was a Globe and Mail best book, shortlisted for the Governor General’s Award, Ottawa Book Award, and Trillium Book Award for Poetry, and won a CBC Literary Award. His critically acclaimed second collection was The Chimney Stone. Born and raised in small-town Ontario, Rob currently lives in the hills northeast of Toronto, where he teaches at Trent University. His new collection, Old Hat, an investigation of lyric cliches, will is forthcoming from Nightwood this spring.

Idi Tse-Tung

He has never seen the sea, never mountains.
He has never turned a wheel, riveted a hull,
pulled a trigger, trained a telescope.
He has never held an oboe.

He has never entered vaginas or mineshafts...