Poetry. Winner of the 2009 Trillium Book Award for Poetry and shortlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize, CRABWISE TO THE HOUNDS is a startling debut from the winner of the CBC Literary Award and the Bronwen Wallace Award. With cameos by jackalopes, Glenn Gould, homemade spaceships and Carl Linnaeus, these poems are astonishing for their technical agility and their restless inventiveness. There's an elegance here that matches Dodd's impulse to challenge the reader with fresh metaphor and remarkable phrasing; the formal ambitions of many of the poems in CRABWISE TO THE HOUNDS are balanced by an inclination toward wordplay and bright musicality. Humorous at times, yet always handled with consummate craft, these poems invoke historical figures like Hiram Bingham and Ho Chi Minh even as they traverse a poetic landscape that includes telephone-game-style translations, interpretive-dance poems on historic paintings and carnivalesque jaunts into a natural world overrun with mules, Alsatians, lions and motorcycle-sized deer.

Author City: Orono, ON USA

Jeramy Dodds lives in Orono, Ontario. His poems have been translated into Finnish, French, Latvian, Swedish, German and Icelandic. In 2007 he held a residency at the Baltic Centre for Writers and Translators on the island of Gotland, Sweden. He is the winner of the 2006 Bronwen Wallace Memorial Award and the 2007 CBC Literary Award in poetry. He works as a research archaeologist and co-edits for littlefishcartpress.

Reviews and Other Links
http://lemonhound.blogspot.com/2009/04/chris-hutchinson-on-jeramy-dodds.html
http://www.quillandquire.com/reviews/review.cfm?review_id=6324
http://robmclennan.blogspot.com/2008/09/crabwise-to-hounds-by-jeramy-dodds.html
http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/Books/article/616951
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/books/article978939.ece
http://www.mansfieldpress.net/essays/crabwise.html