Landing
Description
The poems in The Landing, Sinnett's first collection, reflect on a life divided in two by a move from England to Canada. Ontario's glacial landscape is the backdrop for a darkly humorous, often unsettling look at the nature of love and commitment at the end of the twentieth century. This is a time when lurid close-ups of brain surgery are beamed into the home; when the sight of a woman pulling on her wool sweater drives a man mad; when a bored lover considers digging an escape tunnel through the backyard ...
Reviews
"These poems [are] blessedly unphoney and clearvoiced and, what is perhaps after all the decisive thing, quite often piercingly unexpected, moving, right." - Don Coles
"Mark Sinnett's important debut, so `askew & Caligari,' is full of dark turnings and shiftings, yet shot through with a stubborn radiance and hard-earned flashes of redemption." - Steven Heighton
"These poems [are] blessedly unphoney and clearvoiced and, what is perhaps after all the decisive thing, quite often piercingly unexpected, moving, right." - Don Coles "Mark Sinnett's important debut, so `askew & Caligari,' is full of dark turnings and shiftings, yet shot through with a stubborn radiance and hard-earned flashes of redemption." - Steven Heighton