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Biographical note
Kevin Shaw was born and raised in London, ON. His poems have appeared in the Malahat Review, the Gay & Lesbian Review, Contemporary Verse 2, Grain, and the Fiddlehead. He received Arc Poetry Magazine's Poem of the Year award and the Grand Prize in the PRISM international Poetry Contest. He is currently completing his PhD in English at the University of Western Ontario."Incantatory music box, intricate as a mechanical watch and wrestling with its melodies, <i>Smaller Hours</i> takes us along the edge of the small and violent disasters that are men."
- Shane Rhodes,
"Five decades after Edward A. Lacey self-published <i>Forms of Loss</i>, English Canada’s first book of gay-male poetry, meet Kevin Shaw. The challenges of being gay may have changed—a little (we still must choose to come out)—but the candour with which queer experience is now limned is given equally rich voice in <i>Smaller Hours</i>. Shaw is a poet worth waiting for."
- John Barton,
"Even though the focus of the book is the gay experience, <i>Smaller Hours</i> uses the full resources of poetry to create a wider human, artistic statement about self-discovery, identity, disappointment, acceptance, and the unsteady playing out of love within the context of history."
- Susan Ioannou, <i>The Antigonish Review</i>