The Land Beyond, is on a double edge: the geographical edge of Canada - Vancouver Island and the City of Vancouver - and the edge of loss and despair always in, and sometimes overtaking, our lives. The Land Beyond flips from childhood memories to car crashes with the precision of a switchblade.
Written in the year after the birth of Matt Rader's first daughter, Living Things honestly introduces the contradictions of the modern world: "how what we see in daylight is less than whole / and also more so." Using words in lieu of sonar, these poems bounce off the ecology of "shabby saturated grasses" and "panther-eyed armies of salal," and locate both author and reader within a literary genealogy. Matt Rader's poetry brings subtle slowness to a chaotic, fast-paced environment.
Matt Rader’s debut collection is the fierce and tender retelling of our first “miraculous hours”—those early significant-and-strange interactions with the ones we love and the world we live in.
A Doctor Pedalled Her Bicycle Over the River Arno carries within it all the technique, vision, imaginative labour, and razor-sharp precision of Matt Rader's first two collections but ascends, also, to a new and luminous, demanding, particularized
From Vancouver Island to Guantanamo Bay, the Bulkley River to Niagara Falls, Reservations—perturbed, disturbed and reverberated in the echo chamber of the sonnet sequence—broadcasts bursts of clarity from the field of frequencies known as Canadian culture, language, history…
A Doctor Pedalled Her Bicycle Over the River Arno carries within it all the technique, vision, imaginative labour, and razor-sharp precision of Matt Rader's first two collections but ascends, also, to a new and luminous, demanding, particularized
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