The New York Times raves about Mathew Henderson's The Lease

February 27, 2013 — In a review for The New York Times (!), Dwight Garner says ‘The Lease cuts into its primary subjects — grease, technology, physical labor, alienated sex, mud, fear, profound loneliness — like a welder’s oxyacetylene flame. [...] I've read more adept books of poetry than The Lease in the past six months, with more self-conscious chaos and precision wordplay. But I've read none that I was more eager to run through again in my mind.’

The poems in The Lease, Mathew Henderson's debut collection, are distilled from Henderson's time spent working in the Albertan and Saskatchewan oilfields.

Read the review online on the New York Times website.