Poetry
ISBN-13: 978-1-997508052
$21.95 CDN / $19.95 US | Trade Paperback
February 2026
In his most personal collection to date, award-winning poet David Martin elegizes his younger brother, who died by suicide at the age of twenty-three. With a mixture of childhood recollections and anguished immediate perceptions, nightstead produces a complex memorial while pushing against the utmost limits of memory’s power. Dislocating experiments juxtapose with searingly direct verse to make a haunting poetic memoir that will remain with readers long after they put it down.
Praise for David Martin
“Martin explores…myths in gritty, sensual, and historically vivid language. This ambitious debut immerses us in the tar of archaeology and the bite of our own environmental dilemma.”— Jury Citation for Tar Swan, Raymond Souster Award
“There are many gems to discover in Kink Bands, if one digs deep enough, or, as Martin says, climbs ‘the beautiful and slightly terrifying’ mountains high enough, to find them.”– Prairie Books NOW
Limited Verse is a unique and valuable experiment. Martin has created a work that will satiate lovers of poetry and wordplay, especially those who are well-read and fascinated by the workings of verse. But, perhaps more importantly, Martin has also presented a peerlessly accessible step into translation theory, one that will surprise readers into getting uncomfortable with their own language.– FreeFall Magazine
