I just happened to come across. I try to write abut books I like, but it can be fun to read a good piece of nasty. In this case of a poet I had not even ehrad of (despite, apparently, something of a rep). But what the reviewer quotes deserves his disdain: http://www.tnr.com/book/review/kingdom-sea-monkeys-campbell-mcgrath Doug Douglas Barbour [log in to unmask] http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/ http://eclecticruckus.wordpress.com/ Latest books: Continuations & Continuations 2 (with Sheila E Murphy) http://www.uap.ualberta.ca/UAP.asp?LID=41&bookID=962 Wednesdays' http://abovegroundpress.blogspot.com/2008/03/new-from-aboveground-press_10.html Why can’t words mean what they say? Robert Kroetsch