This book 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'.
This book 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'.
Jim Johnstone obtained his MSc in Reproductive Physiology from The University of Toronto. In 2006, he received the E J Pratt Medal and Prize in Poetry for his chapbook Siamese poems. Currently, he edits Misunderstandings Magazine, a literary journal he co-founded in 2005.
Patternicity transforms the mundane into the otherworldly ... it's
a compelling system of thought.
―Mark Callanan, Quill & Quire
Award-winning and full of thought, Jim Johnstone brings readers a
fresh experience with Patternicity. Seeking to explore language and
how it often fails to truly get the message across, Patternicity is
a read that shouldn't be missed by any poetry lover.
―Small Press Bookwatch (Oregon)
I love Patternicity for its dirty noises. These are stylized,
energized, slightly alarming poems tilted by scientific
perspectives and ridden with violence, "meat stink," blood and
decay; poems that try to celebrate the "flanks / of hog, skinned
heads lopped off / and honeyed." Jim Johnstone's forms are shapely,
but feral. His music is beautifully rational, complex and
charismatic.
―Carmine Starnino
This tight collection gains interest from the broad base of its
scientific reference and historical scope, not
to mention its linguistic density and reach.
―Gillian Harding-Russell, Prairie Fire Review of Books
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