we are no longer the smart kids in class

From the drunk tank to the graduate seminar, we are no longer the smart kids in class asks what it means to think and be, play and learn, ride bikes and make love in a world of depleting resources, technological proliferation, and corroding ecosystems. A fantasia of academic disillusionment and deflating youth, this collection contemplates moustaches, mountains, and oceans from Halifax to Victoria, always wondering how poetry matters to the heaving, melting, masturbating world it dramatizes.

AUTHOR

David Huebert

David Huebert’s stories have won the CBC Short Story Prize, the Sheldon Currie Fiction Prize, and The Dalhousie Review’s short story contest. His fiction has also been shortlisted for the Peter Hinchcliffe Fiction Award and published in magazines such as enRoute, Grain, Matrix, and The Puritan. David is the author of the poetry collection We Are No Longer The Smart Kids In Class (Guernica, 2015) and the winner of The Walrus’ 2016 Poetry Prize. Originally from Halifax, Nova Scotia, David currently lives in London, Ontario, where he’s completing a PhD and a novel about southwestern Ontario oil.

Reviews

We are no longer the smart kids in class is a smart and spirited debut volume. These are bawdy, wryly confessional, warts-and-all poems that celebrate language and love, family and nature, the cerebral and the sensual. Occasionally drunk but always observant, Huebert’s narrators contemplate life’s mysteries with their head in the clouds and their pants around their ankles. A pornographer of the heart, David Huebert shies away from nothing. His voice is authentic and raw and is sure to give the Canadian poetry scene a much needed slap in the face.

Relentlessly inventive, sonically crisp, and often very funny poems