Li'l Bastard

Finalist for the 2012 Governor General's Award for Poetry David McGimpsey's fifth collection of poems takes to new levels the melding of the deeply personal and the culturally popular that drove his acclaimed book Sitcom (nominated for the A. M. Klein Prize for Poetry) - this is confessional poetry as written by a chronic trickster and a committed liar. Written in part as an homage to the poetic idols of his youth, John Berryman a...