For Display Purposes Only

"Whip-pan-smart, fleet and protean, David Seymour's poems seem to contain the speed of the age. I love their ranginess and ambition, the way they rove through a here-and-now teeming with there-and-then, their speakers' flights and turnings through the blizzard. This is a different world, and we live in it." —Paul Farley

"For Display Purposes Only is fighting trim, and poem after poem is a knockout blow." — National Post

"We are met at the front door of this book by an energized curiosity and ...