Patternicity Product Form:Paperback / softback All of these poems work

All of these poems work in a shadow

Spanning settings from dark prison cells in Guantanamo Bay and Syria to the gilded corridors of power on Parliament Hill

The land and our bodies take a beating

"Living Things thrives

Publication Date: 20100928

Patternicity Product Form:Paperback / softback All of these poems workDescription Patternicity contains a suite of poems that won a 2008 CBC Literary Award and follows the author's debut book of poems, The Velocity of Escape (Guernica Editions, 2008). As a physiologist currently completing his Ph. D. at the University of Toronto, Johnstone's work is informed by a scientific approach, his own corporeal environment and an exploration of "the unreliability of language, regardless of how it's relayed." Prize(s): Short