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"Praise for David Martin... ""Through its daring, and brilliantly challenging, use of diction, syntax and imagery, it embodies the best of contemporary experimental verse. Tar Swan urgently speaks to central concerns of our time, particularly here in Canada: the consequences of coal and oil extraction, environmental degradation, and our responsibility to the natural world."" --CBC Poetry Prize Citation ""Martin explores...myths in gritty, sensual, and historically vivid language. This ambitious debut immerses us in the tar of archaeology and the bite of our own environmental dilemma."" --2019 Raymond Souster Award Jury Citation (shortlisted) ""This is a remarkable collection..."" --Anne Burke, The Prairie Journal ""This book is a wild ride, chilling at times though leavened with dark humour."" --Sid Marty, Alberta Views ""Martin's complex collection criticizes the hubristic development of the tar sands and unearths fixed forms to reckon with environmental change."" --Kait Pinder, Canadian Literature ""Martin's Tar Swan illuminates the degradation of the non-human and human world in four fictive voices bound by a specific thematic and historical period.... this work quickens."" --Deanna Radford, ARC Poetry Magazine"

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David Martin works as a literacy instructor in Calgary and as an organizer for the Single Onion Poetry Series. His first collection, Tar Swan (NeWest Press, 2018), was a finalist for the Raymond Souster Award and the City of Calgary W. O. Mitchell Book Prize. David's work has been awarded the CBC Poetry Prize, and has been shortlisted for prizes from FreeFall, Vallum, and PRISM international. As well, his poems have appeared in numerous journals and magazines across Canada.

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