For a first book, Waiting Room demonstrates Jennifer Zilm’s already strong talent and insight. She joins a large number of fine young poets emerging in 21st century Canada … the book achieves a bleak yet open grandeur.

Waiting Room is compelling, gripping, and familiar. It is a valuable contribution to the documentary tradition in Canadian poetry.

Waiting Room: Zilm encourages readers to engage a bit more than normal in the activity of reading. She dares readers to find beauty in the leftover and the unfinished, in the margins.

Throughout the exploration of different types of documentation and archives, the author investigates how we document and archive ourselves, where we leave our marks and how we mark ourselves.