Poetry. SOONER is the percussive music of a keen mind turned to all of its stations at once, a poetry of impetuosity and composure, of ambient life and arousals of taste, of perambulation and possibility. This is the music of a keenly tuned mind listening to all of its stations at once, a poetry of menace and possibility, clear sight and ambiguity, love and darkness, jealousy and light. If to know is to feel precisely, as another poet once suggested, Christakos makes it clear the opposite may be just as true, adn that the devil is still in the details: "You don't know what you think or feel. You only think and feel you know, and wave from the window..." This is Margaret Christakos's most tender, prismatic and luminous collection to date.

Margaret Christakos is the award-winning author of six acclaimed poetry collections and a novel, Charisma, shortlisted for the Trillium Book Award. She teaches creative writing and runs 'Influency: A Toronto Poetry Salon' at the University of Toronto School of Continuing Studies. Her most recent collection, Sooner was shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Award.