Flat Side

Monty Reid
• Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry
• Alberta Book Cover Design Award

Poetry / Canadian
96 pages • 5 x 8 1/2"
ISBN 0–88995–188–8 paper • CDN 12.95 • USA 9.95

Reid's imagination ranges from bluegrass music to the Burgess Shale, from curling to incinerated body parts–all shaped by a remarkable ability to make the ordinary luminous and to make the extraordinary burn.

Reviews
"One of the season's most emotionally powerful and accessible works of verse."
–Edmonton Journal

"Makes us feel a whole range of personal emotions about our reading . . . about the fate of literature and the fate of permanence."
–ARC

"Reid's poems are built like rock . . . . Embedded in each layer are descriptions so well-wrought, a whole life can be reconstructed from them."
–Saskatoon Star Phoenix