Swing In the Hollow is a debut collection that struggles with the service and spoil of lyrical attention. In quirky and precise turns, Knighton's language teases a sense of phenomena from the rubbish and rubble of atrophied urban experience.

Praise for Swing in the Hollow:

"... meditative and immediate ... hewn deftly out of pop culture ... imploded epic and a localism played closer than white on rice." (Wayde Compton, City of Vancouver Book Award winning author of The Outer Harbour)

"At once attentive and receptive to the kitsch and debris of branded recognitions and cartoon iconographies - the geography of Vancouver days - Ryan's poem traces a bright path through pandemonium, a place where 'beauty seems sometimes best served blindly.'" (Sharon Thesen, Pat Lowther Award winning author of A Pair of Scissors)

"It is wonderfully subtle and witty, with the title setting a tone for the poems to follow." (Winnipeg Free Press)

Ryan Knighton's most recent book is Cockeyed: A Memoir (Penguin Books, 2006). He is also the co-author of Cars with George Bowering (Coach House, 2002). His journalism and satirical essays have appeared in such magazines as Utne and Saturday Night, and in such newspapers as The Globe and Mail, The Vancouver Sun, and The Montreal Gazette. He is presently undertaking a documentary film with director Scott Smith (Falling Angels) called As Slow As Possible. It involves a pipe organ and over six hundred years of hope.

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