David Hickey's sophomore collection of poetry,Open Air Bindery, builds upon the myriad strengths of his first collection to offer a tightly fantastic collection of songs, stories and covenants ranging across everything from art and astronomy to snowflakes and suburbia, each poem a small instance of colliding light, playful and humorous and profound. These poems, like the flakes in Hickey's poem sequence "Snowflake Photography," take their "time/ Covering the roadside trees in forms of (their) careful willing ... gesturing down to earth, unveiling new shapes/ for all that (they) find/ here in the oldest of botanies."

David Hickey grew up on Prince Edward Island, in western Labrador, and along the north shore of Quebec. A past recipient of the Milton Acorn Prize and the Ralph Gustafson Prize for Poetry, his work has appeared in magazines and journals across Canada an the United States. An avid runner and back yard astronomer, he now lives in London, Ontario, where he is completing a PhD in Canadian literature.

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