PRAISE FOR JOHN ELIZABETH STINTZI AND JUNEBAT "John Elizabeth Stintzi's Junebat is a work of immense gentleness. The care shown toward the authorial self, the past, and those within Stintzi's emotional sphere is like coming up for air from a culture ruled by nihilism. Case in point: 'I am trying to personalize / myself to my melancholy, don't want to be neighbour / to my own narrative anymore.' To the poetics of the queer everyday Stintzi adds their 'Junebat,' a multitudinous concept of such explanatory power I'm certain it'll endure in the collective memory of Canadian writing." -- Billy-Ray Belcourt, award-winning author of This Wound is a World and NDN Coping Mechanisms "Junebat is a piercing examination of body, self, and the miraculous yet painful process of becoming. In this emotionally intimate, technically brilliant debut collection, Stintzi both opens a window to their soul and holds a mirror to the reader's. Quietly powerful, Junebat is the kind of book one returns to over and over again, to read and to dream about." -- Kai Cheng Thom, award-winning author of A Place Called No Homeland and I Hope We Choose Love PRAISE FOR JOHN ELIZABETH STINTZI Winner, Writers' Trust RBC Bronwen Wallace Award Winner, Malahat Review's Long Poem Prize PRAISE FOR JOHN ELIZABETH STINTZI "'Selections from a Junebat' is a compelling collision of content and form disrupting gender identity and reckoning with the liminal and silent space that such disruption instigates.

John Elizabeth Stintzi's poems rely on the breaking of grammar and syntactical sequences as well as a re-visioning of Wallace Stevens' 'Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird' to assert an authentic identity in the speaker's private and public life. This reckoning and reclamation of self asks readers to consider their own concepts of gender and the difficulties that are faced when gender norms are disrupted. These are brave and timely poems." -- RBC Bronwen Wallace Award Jury Citation "This poem witnesses the brutality of calving season with such visceral tenderness that one can only hold one's gut and gasp aloud. It grabs the reader with its strange, emotionally and relationally complex opening image, and its recurrence is one the reader both clings to and dreads. Narratively enthralling and achingly rendered, it illustrates animal life in its most delicate and staccato form." -- Malahat Review's 2019 Long Poem Prize Jury Citation "Stintzi's The Machete Tourist sings with thoughtful observation and poetic crafting, asking its readers to examine our own sense of identity, prejudices, and - perhaps more importantly - the possibilities available to us to strengthen our network of a more connected spirit of humanity." -- Kim Fahner, author of The Wings.