“We do not have to wait long with Susan Buis’s first volume, Gatecrasher, to realize that we are in the presence of a formidably original poetic talent… This is an impressively mature first book.”—The Ormsby Review

“[Buis’] observations about the landscape and its seasonal changes are bracingly vivid.”—Toronto Star

“Susan Buis creates a world where language is as charged as the built and natural environments the poems tramp through, scavenging for beauty in all its forms. These poems are gatecrashers, tussling with the mundane and the sublime, and ‘things of the world soaked in wild dark.’ Each poem invites ‘stray words into its slipstream / as mouth to ear—no, to a silver cell, /my voice in your canal.’ This is a collection to re-read and savour.”—Laisha Rosnau

“Susan Buis’ book, Gatecrasher, are poems that are ‘blunt for progress and polished’ creating a fresh look at the world we live in. She embodies her poetry boldly and confidently.”—Garry Gottfriedson

“Susan Buis’ poems are both tuned to the splendour of the natural world and haunted by this deep poetic attention to ‘the flaws that thrive in the universe.’ Gatecrasher builds an observatory from which the eye bears witness to weather, cicadas, blackbirds, wildfires, cattle, dogs, weeds, and all ‘the bitter fruit of a dry year.’ These are poems whose music arrives in apocalyptic key, anxious, hungry for beauty, and wide awake to the earth’s lament.”—Carla Funk