Patternicity Product Form:Paperback / softback So get your pencil (or

So get your pencil (or pen) ready

scared but still apt / to toss "damn thee black / thou cream-faced loon" / in PE class at the rippling back / of some hoop or net-bound jock

All of these poems work in a shadow

poetic practice

--Alex Good

Patternicity Product Form:Paperback / softback So get your pencil (orDescription Patternicity contains a suite of poems that won a 2008 CBC Literary Award and follows the author's debut book of poems, The Velocity of Escape (Guernica Editions, 2008). As a physiologist currently completing his Ph. D. at the University of Toronto, Johnstone's work is informed by a scientific approach, his own corporeal environment and an exploration of "the unreliability of language, regardless of how it's relayed." Prize(s): Short