The following is an excerpt of the lecture I'll be giving next week at the 2009 Literatures of the West Coast Graduate Conference at the University of the Victoria. The working title is "Reservations: Identity and Poetic Form" and it mostly tells the story of how I came to think of poetic form as being both customs agent and traveller, local and global.

A review of Jacob Polley's second collection, Little Gods. Polley is definetly in my top five poets under forty writing today. Often he's at the top of my list of favourite poets writing on any day.