April 2009
101 pages | ISBN 978-1-894987-33-2
$17.00
**Winner of the Acorn-Plantos Award**
**Winner of the Hamilton Literary Award, Poetry**
In sure and tender poetry, Chris Pannell looks into the rearview mirror of his bus - and his life - to celebrate the humanity of his passengers, and himself. From speaking with kidney dialysis patients, to driving sleeping teenagers home, Pannell's poems engage the reader with his empathic view of our world in elegantly constructed verse.
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Reviews
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Review (Marc Thackray, Journal of Canadian Poetry vol. 26, 1/8/2011) "Pannell employs a loose and meandering free verse, bordering on prosiness, and his diction is down to earth. He fancies himself a people’s poet, and it is Hamilton, his home since he was five years old, that awakens Pannell’s muse and gives his voice distinctiveness.”
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Arts magazine a visual, word-worthy treat (Jeff Mahoney, The Hamilton Spectator, 7/15/2009) “There are beautifully rendered stories of the passengers he drives, often interwoven with other observations, some of the very casual, minute and fleeting but leading in their meandering way to thoughts on larger themes.”
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Lit Review - Drive by Chris Pannell (Jessica Rose, H Magazine, 1/5/2009) "Readers can’t help but fall in love with the people Pannell observes along his various routes."
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