This tiny, pocket-sized chapbook appears to contain a poem about a person dying. It’s hard to tell, because it reads like the collected captions of some trippy dream sequence in a graphic novel, except without the pictures to explain what’s going on: “A bright white light-/Another fire, blood-/Suffering, Your angelic smile fading-NO!/Not now-How?-Why?/Dreams. /Not now.” Nice try, Spiderman. Get yourself an illustrator and call me back. (Wendy Banks)
chapbook, 10 pages, Kevin Barry, $0.50, 99 Hawthorne Rd., London, ON, N6G 2Y2