Van Gogh’s Grasshopper is a collection of fifty poems about insects and other very small creatures. Each poem focuses on particular aspects of a specific tiny life form: their name and what it means, their overall design and structure, the superstitions we have about them, and their particular strategies to survive.

Michael Pacey has been a fixture of Fredericton's literary scene for more than fifty years, publishing his early poems in The Fiddlehead while still in high school, and his first collection with New Brunswick Chapbooks while a sophomore at UNB. He did his MFA in Creative Writing at UBC where he served as editor-in-chief of Prism International (1984-85).

In recent years he has produced four collections: The First Step and Electric Affinities (2011 and 2015, both from Signature Editions) and Wild Apples: a Dialogue with Thoreau (Pottersfield Press, 2022). The latter two collections were shortlisted for the Fiddlehead Prize at the annual New Brunswick Book Awards. More than a hundred of Michael's poems have appeared in Canadian literary magazines, and his poems have twice been recognized in the Best Canadian Poems in English series.

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