Bait & Switch: Essays, Reviews, Conversations, and Views on Canadian Poetry

2024 | Porcupine’s Quill

by Jim Johnstone

Bait & Switch considers origins, tracking the moments in my life that I came to poetry and editing, respectively, while thinking through the work of Ian Williams and Tolu Oloruntoba. That I count these two writers as friends has been one of the unexpected joys of exchanging my scientific beginnings for a writing life.” - Jim Johnstone

Poetry in the Clinic: Towards a Lyrical Medicine

2021, Routledge | Taylor & Francis

by Alan Bleakley, Shane Neilson

Chapter 13, “Tactical ambiguity spelunking amidst Canadian physician-poets” examines some of my work.