Faulty Lines: The Poetry and Poetics of Don McKay
Reviewed by Zachariah Wells Camber: Selected Poems 1983-2000, by Don McKay, McLelland & Stewart, 2004. 224 pp. Field Marks: The Poetry of Don McKay, by Don McKay, ed. and intro. Méira Cook, afterword Don McKay. Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2006. 86 pp. Strike/Slip, by Don McKay, McLelland & Stewart, 2006. 88 pp. With the publication of a Selected in 2004, an essay collection in 2005, a new collection and a short critical selection in 2006, as well as an anthology of essays on his work forthcoming this year, the time is ripe for a sober appraisal of Don McKay’s merits and flaws as a poet. I say “sober” deliberately, as most of what passes for criticism of McKay’s work sounds to