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Shortlisted for the 1997 Gerald Lampert Award The poems in Calm Jazz Sea reveal a world forever becoming and disappearing, watched over and handled gently by the compassionate intelligence of Mike

Prompted by a mysterious summons from his past, a man known only as 'The Super' begins an investigation into maternal neglect by a privileged Toronto family.

It is 1984. The latest recession is said to be over, and in the steel city of Hamilton, things are picking up.

In the world of The Reasonable Ogre, magic is nothing if not paradoxical.