The poems in The Landing, Sinnett's first collection, reflect on a life divided in two by a move from England to Canada. Ontario's glacial landscape is the backdrop for a darkly humorous, often unsettling look at the nature of love and commitment at the end of the twentieth century. This is a time when lurid close-ups of brain surgery are beamed into the home; when the sight of a woman pulling on her wool sweater drives a man mad; when a bored lover considers digging an escape tunnel through the backyard ...

MARK SINNETT was born in Oxford, England, moved to Canada in 1980, and now lives in Toronto. He is the acclaimed author of a collection of stories, Bull, and two books of poetry: The Landing, which won the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award, and Some Late Adventure of the Feelings. The Border Guards has been published internationally in several languages.

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"These poems [are] blessedly unphoney and clearvoiced and, what is perhaps after all the decisive thing, quite often piercingly unexpected, moving, right." - Don Coles "Mark Sinnett's important debut, so 'askew & Caligari,' is full of dark turnings and shiftings, yet shot through with a stubborn radiance and hard-earned flashes of redemption." - Steven Heighton

"These poems [are] blessedly unphoney and clearvoiced and, what is perhaps after all the decisive thing, quite often piercingly unexpected, moving, right." - Don Coles
"Mark Sinnett's important debut, so 'askew & Caligari,' is full of dark turnings and shiftings, yet shot through with a stubborn radiance and hard-earned flashes of redemption." - Steven Heighton