Reviews
"Ross Belot's astonishing poetry steps off a moving train into the unknown. He deftly locates strangeness in the ordinary - in a sagging couch that shifts from one place to another in a room, or in a magpie that walks 'through her body.' We find 'Yesterday was all chainsaw' in poems that buzz with power, defying expectation. Moving to Climate Change Hours is a remarkable book, revealing a poet at the height of his craft." - Anne Simpson, author of Strange Attractor "It is wonderful to read these confident, wide-ranging poems. Belot takes recognizable subjects - work, marriage, parenting, drinking with co-workers, childhood, new love - and makes them strange again. Shifting between Canadian and American landscapes and locales, and using many different poetic forms, what emerges is a strong yet questioning personality, confronting his own life in middle age, as well as his own complicity in larger catastrophes. It's a beautiful, intimate, ambitious, moving book written by a poet of great skill and deep feeling." - Matthew Zapruder, author of Father's Day
