Bruce Meyer has been the chief Canadian champion of New Formalism, having aligned himself with the movement since the late 1980s. He is also one of the few New Formalists with a firm grounding in the tradition of the English lyric and has relied upon this background to break the mold of what Canadian poetry had been in the latter half of the twentieth century. In fact, he regards his work in prosody as an act of defiance against the status quo of poetry in Canada, resolutely forging ahead with traditional English forms as his guideposts in a literary context that has forgotten what tradition is. His poetry has been closely aligned with poets Molly Peacock and Dana Gioia. Canadian identity and experience, history, storytelling, family, love, the play of form, and playfulness with form--all these are hallmarks of his verse. He strives to discover the music in...