“Poetry find of the year, easily.”—John Doyle, The Globe and MailRotten Perfect Mouth is a wonderfully fresh first book by a writer with an intuitive ear for colourful, musical language. These poems are loose enough for the reader to flop down inside and stay awhile. They are plangent, personal, confessional, noisy, nostalgic, and maybe a little bit broken. They often contain boats and travel and Toronto (street names and railroad tracks, dives an...

**An astonishing, inventive new collection of poems from the author of Rotten Perfect Mouth.Includes the poem “Bonedog” featured in the film I’m Thinking of Ending ThingsPat Lowther Memorial Award, Shortlist**Deeply attuned to the cadence of life, the poems in The Natural Hustle offer provocative, intimate snapshots. They explore the bewildering experience of living—precisely locating unexpected truths. Ingenious, original, surprising, her...