“This is Canada speaking, loud and clear, quirky and unashamed to be itself. This is surely one of the most audacious and fresh poetic debuts of the new Canadian century.” This is Todd Swift speaking. He is speaking about Jacob McArthur Mooney’s The New Layman’s Almanac. “A rollicking debut from a young enthusiast with Walt Whitman’s beaming sincerity.” Just so you know, Jacob McArthur Mooney is a Nova Scotian now living in Mississauga, Ontario. He is poetry editor with the always controversial web journal ThievesJargon.com (which any self-respecting writer should already know about) and the founder of The Facebook Review. Back to Todd Swift. Sadly, the Globe and Mail does not offer the full article online. But do write us and we will gladly email it to you. Swift’s latest poetry collection is called Winter Tennis which Mooney quite fraternally but no less adeptly reviews here.
