Fraser Sutherland’s poetry highlights – in his deeply ironic and often controversial manner – the age-old unstated objections to the everyday practices which constitute the reality of multicultural life – borrowing the voice of the bigot or the racist or the xenophobe to subvert these unconscious impulses by exposing them to the full scrutiny of public utterance and discourse. This work provides the viewer with a point of entry into the much larger and diverse oeuvre of the author, setting the stage, as it were, for an intimate and revealing look at this powerful yet greatly underrated Canadian literary presence.
