“Swaying flirtatiously between themes of aging, apology, self-awareness, and sex, poet Marcus McCann’s tight, percussive compositions – which are best read aloud, slowly, and with someone listening – are a reminder of why intimacy, along with all its attendant disappointments, is still worth striving for.”—Quill & Quire‘s 2017 Books of the Year reviewers’ picks

“McCann’s work is a must for any lover of poems.”—Northumberland Today

“Shut Up Slow Down Let Go Breathe offers wry commentary on the modern world’s miniature nightmares.”—Winnipeg Free Press

“Marcus’ poetry collects the anxieties built from a combination of interactions within the city, between people, and with oneself. We are asked to slow our pace a heartbeat and observe those interactions. Document the anxieties. Laugh at them a little. Marcus guides us through a Toronto where the calm exists within the chaos, and we are only a car wreck away from finding it.”—Broken Pencil

“The poems that make up Shut Up Slow Down Let Go Breathe are, one might say, an incredible mouthful: smart and sassy, thoughtful and wise, thick with swagger, impulse and a great deal more experience than his prior two collections.”—rob mclennan