Metromorphoses

When he first hiked the Don Valley trails / all he heard was river as he strode / beside its glitter of smashing glass

Grounded in the local and immediate – from Toronto’s rivers and ravines to its highways and skyscrapers – Metromorphoses explores some of the radical changes that have taken place in the city during the course of its history.

The collection’s poems focus, in roughly chronological order, on the city’s inhabitants and the changing relationships between people and place, from th...