Ross Belot's latest collection is a dark ode to the end of oil. From industrial accidents to frozen highways Belot charts the ends of a life that face a working man in stripped-down lyric poetry. These are poems that have seen it all and acknowledge the darkness that's coming while still finding beauty in the arched neck of a tundra swan. Belot has a filmmaker's sense of atmosphere and an environmentalist's urgency and his stark lines take the reader deep into the heart of industrial man.

Ross Belot now lives in Hamilton Ontario but grew up in communities across all over Ontario, always living close to the Great Lakes. In recent years he has spent time on the west coast and in Banff area and his writing reflects these varied landscapes. He began writing poetry while attending McMaster University’s creative writing program as an escape from his day job. He has been active in Hamilton’s local literary scene, and a member of the executive and editorial board for Tower Poetry. He is currently a member of the executive of the Hamilton Poetry Centre. His writing has appeared in a number of local literary journals and anthologies and was recently rofiled in two Mexican journals. This is his first collection. The manuscript was developed under the Banff Centre’s Wired Writing Program.

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"Belot constantly shakes up his lingual structures, sometimes tossing in a mucked-with form, then lineating skinny, stretching his prosy arms, scoring slashes, shaping triplets, slotting in a few dark photos."

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