Soul on Standby

Soul on Standby is a hybrid of the surreal and the narrative. It exposes the under-layers, the subtext, of experience in a voice that registers common patterns of speech and startles with the unexpected. Its themes are broad, its stories chiseled out of the quotidian, its miniature worlds surprising and revealing.These poems draw on memory and its occasional fictions: some restate the obvious and the observed in surreal captions, others recast the lyric as documentary. There is tenderness here and anxiety, alienation and the all-too-familiar, tongue-in-cheek cynicism and self parody.

Antony Di Nardo is the author of the poetry collection Alien, Correspondent, and his poetry appears widely in journals both in Canada and internationally. He splits his time between Oshawa, Ontario, and Sutton, Quebec.