Gooseis a masterful work of reinterpetation revealing brilliant strands of critique and resistance within the romanticized poems and drawings of the selfstyled father of the tar sands Language image land and labouring bodies break free of Sidney Ellss narrow preconceptions here unravelling the colonial logic of extractive industry and presenting instead a vibrant nuanced way of understanding energy and belongingWarren Cariou author ofLake of the Prairies

Honk if youre ready to ruffle the colonial archiveGooseis one of those rare and wonderful works that just sits beautifully irreverently and wholly in its hybridity its experimentation and its genrebending and never once tries to justify itself In this sharp witty funny and deeply political collection Melanie Dennis Unrau raises a delicately inked middle finger to extractivist nostalgia Tracing and transforming the settler boosterism of Sidney Clarke Ells she reclaims the page with each gestural mark and cheeky erasure The result is like every goose fierce silly and totally ungovernableDani Spinosa author ofOO Typewriter Poems

Gooseis far more than experimental poetry it is call and response disintegration and repair These poems cast a long hard look at SC Ellss contributions as the father of the tar sands to the colonial prosperity of Alberta and the ecological devastation that followed in his and others footsteps The collection speaks from within the stacks of the archives and the living tissue of community stories ebullient and interrogatory these poems sound their presence as clearly as the geeseJenna Butler author ofRevery A Year of Bees