Poetry
ISBN-13: 978-1-990293-91-7
$21.95 CDN / $21.95 US | Trade Paperback
May 2025
In Lost Signal, Chris Hutchinson celebrates the resilience and adaptability of language, while locating the tipping points of our ongoing environmental, informational, and humanitarian crises. Subtle semantic shifts mirror ideological rifts — yet lyricism thrives, along with a diversity of perspectives, forms, and styles, affirming faith in the power of the human spirit to challenge the insidious forces shaping our collective present.
Praise for Lost Signal:
Lost Signal stretches poetics beyond the linear, taking into account the multiplicity of experiences that shape identity. Hutchinson calls into question not just the future, but the past and the present through smokescreens of afterhours parties, revolution, and the glare of contemporary capitalism/democracy.—Conor Kerr, author of Prairie Edge
Chris Hutchinson is one of the most finely tuned poets in Canada, and in this new collection, his intensity and originality are on full display. Lost Signal is a dizzying imaginative ride through a contemporary-culture-assaulted psyche where “at the pinnacle of distress … our schemes / dissolve, along with all traces / of their computations.” The ride is a compelling one, shot through with pathos, intellectual acuity, and a subtle and highly affecting creative cry. —Russell Thornton, author of The White Light of Tomorrow
Lost Signal is a metaphysical field guide, lullaby, and virtuosic figuration of grammar, the poet “hammering sheets of darkness” into a “parable of punctuation” with Stevensian elan from Vancouver to the Yukon and Atlantis. Hutchinson restores a haptic primacy to poetry’s power to touch, to move, offering a revelatory alternative to mortality: surrender to lyric origins, “spirit flooding in.”—Virginia Konchan, author of Requiem
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