Stephen Scobie

Only Ondaatje, people say, shaking their heads in the knowing admiration, only Michael could have found the cover illustration.

Gertrude Stein, seventy years ago, was searching for a way of writing which she called "the continuous present": that is, a linguistic mode which would challenge and modify the temporality and the linearity of conventional prose narration.

The Martyrology: Books 1 & 2, bp Nichol. Coach House Press, [1972], 1976

Octomi, Andrew Suknaski, Thistledown Press, 1976.

It's alway a bit unfair to quote from a book's dust-jacket blurb. The authors are

Slight of hand: that's all

Trace the patterns we make,