Shortlisted for the 2014 Robert Kroetsch award for innovative poetry, The things I heard about you collects prose poems that explore precision and the unspoken, executing a process whereby vignettes and scenes break apart into fragments, rumours or suggestions of the original story. They are distilled into smaller, more potent versions of their previous selves, often leading to a new thought, effect, or revelation. Intense, vivid scenes that encompass large, intangible ideas such as loss and grief are decomposed—stripped to the barest detail. Ultimately, The things I heard about you is an evocative, beautifully crafted book of tidal memories and elegies, love songs to the coast and all its inhabitants.

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Daniel Allen Cox is the author of the books Shuck, Krakow Melt, Basement of Wolves, and Tattoo This Madness In. He co-wrote the screenplay for the Bruce LaBruce film Gerontophilia. Daniel has appeared at literary festivals and universities across North America, and has been a columnist, editor, juror and fiction mentor. Daniel’s fiction has been nominated for the Lambda Literary, Ferro-Grumley, and Re-Lit awards, and has appeared in many magazines and anthologies. He lives in Montreal where he is the vice-president of the Quebec Writers' Federation and is working on a new novel.