Holden eloquently lures us into his world of filmic verse and imagistic wanderlust. We have no choice but to take these illuminating trips with the poet, from one unsettling moment to another. An economy of language, an attention to the importance of the image, and a sophisticated understanding of rhetoric make this an essential read. This is a book that celebrates both the lyric and the avant-garde, the formal and the abstract. Trains of Winnipeg is an outstanding and unique poetic debut. Clive Holden is a poet and media artist living in Winnipeg, Canada. His publications include: Fury —Fictions & Films, (book, Arbeiter Ring Publishing, 1998) and Trains of Winnipeg (audio CD, Cyclops Press/Endearing Records, 2001). His film poems have been screened at the London International Film Festival, the Poetry Film & Video Festival in San Francisco, Vancouver’s Video Poem Festival, Le Festival du nouveau Cinéma et des nouveaux Médias de Montréal, and the ZEBRA Poetry Film Awards in Berlin. This book is part of an on-going project, including a feature length experimental film.