In poems that are both freewheeling and socially incisive (often at once), the chicken’s burden to be caged within a world we think we own achieves, along with Alexander’s poetic gift, artistic liftoff. After the Hatching Oven is a vital paean to freedom. It soars.  – Jeff Latosik

DAVID ALEXANDER After the Hatching Oven (Nightwood Editions) TORONTO LAUNCH SATURDAY APRIL 21 3PM

knife | fork | book at The Dark Side Studio, 244 Augusta Avenue, Second Floor (walk-up above Bunner’s Bakery)