"Swaying flirtatiously between themes of aging, apology,self-awareness, and sex, poet Marcus McCann's tight, percussivecompositions - which are best read aloud, slowly, and with someonelistening - are a reminder of why intimacy, along with all its attendantdisappointments, is still worth striving for." -- Quill & Quire 's 2017 Books of the Year reviewers' picks "McCann's work is a must for any lover of poems." -- Northumberland Today " Shut Up Slow Down Let Go Breathe offers wry commentary on the modern world's miniature nightmares." -- Winnipeg Free Press "Marcus'poetry collects the anxieties built from a combination of interactionswithin the city, between people, and with oneself. We are asked to slowour pace a heartbeat and observe those interactions. Document theanxieties. Laugh at them a little. Marcus guides us through a Torontowhere the calm exists within the chaos, and we are only a car wreck awayfrom finding it.

" -- Broken Pencil "The poems that make up Shut Up Slow Down Let Go Breathe are,one might say, an incredible mouthful: smart and sassy, thoughtful andwise, thick with swagger, impulse and a great deal more experience thanhis prior two collections." --rob mclennan.