A False Paradise

Paradise found: a stunning new voice. Moths, wasps, and toads. Designer drugs, glass eyes, stray bullets, and tea-bagging. Africville, dreads, and ghetto palms. This is a false paradise. Brian Rigg s lush and linguistically sensuous debut collection shimmers with poetry reminiscent of writers as diverse as Dionne Brand, Thom Gunn, and ee cummings. His world is charged, electric, and eclectic: politically, socially, sexually, and racially, Rigg is always provocative and compelling. Whether its focus is the subtle dynamics of contemporary families, where children plot to put cockroaches in their father s soup, or the little gods of loss, of insects & secrets, or a black immigrant s experiences with Canadian culture, or the corner of Bleeker and Carlton, a false paradise offers an unique and magically kaleidoscopic union of rhythms and images and words. An impressive new voice, Brian Rigg will shape the literary landscape of Canada s future.