Crabwise to the Hounds a Poetry Foundation book of the year!

Jeramy Dodds's Crabwise to the Hounds has been named one of the prestigious Poetry Foundation's favourite books of the year. The citation begins:

'The most exciting Canadian debut this year, hands down. Part-time archaeologist Jeramy Dodds specializes in densely metaphoric accounts of god-knows-what (surrealist tall tales? gothic head trips?) that nestle so enthusiastically into their internal rhymes, assonances and alliterations that you can’t help but believe—and reread—the ravishingly unbelievable things he tells you...'

Read on at http://www.poetryfoundation.org/harriet/2008/12/some-favorite-books-of-2008/.