#23 Tiny, Frantic, Stronger by Jeff Latosik

Spring 2010

-WINNER OF THE 2010 TRILLIUM BOOK AWARD FOR POETRY

-FINALIST FOR THE 2011 GERALD LAMPERT MEMORIAL AWARD 

-WINNER OF THE 2007 P. K. PAGE FOUNDERS' AWARD

-WINNER OF THE 2008 GREAT CANADIAN LITERARY HUNT 

-FINALIST FOR THE 2008 RBC BRONWEN WALLACE AWARD

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"In Tiny, Frantic, Stronger (whose title is derived from one of the poet’s ‘insect elegies’), a slap shot leaves a “purple mouth” on a shin, days “lean against the crowd fence of other days,” a subway train is “a long, moody thing inside that grows like a vine,” and tomorrows come “dressed in newspaper, balancing a phone book.

"In this clever, heartbreaking first collection, no subject is so small it can’t hint at the ineffable, or so large it isn’t fraught with the everyday struggle of being alive. Equal parts architect, clown, mesmer, and armchair psychologist, Jeff Latosik is the very best kind of poet: an original."

— Kevin Connolly, author of Drift and Revolver