www

www.philipquinn.ca

"Writer "

The SubWay

135 pages featuring poetry, prose, historical and contemporary photos.

Constructed out of the hard physicality of the Toronto subway system, its mechanisms and those elements of humanity that occasionally peer out from behind its windows, The SubWay illustrates the history of the TTC and the parallel impact it has on those riding it. The SubWay examines an underground that in many ways functions as the central nervous system to the city of Toronto. Blending both lyric poetry and found text, readers enter The SubWay, and between the stops and starts, see their own subterranean selves.

Much as the first Toronto subway train, back in 1954, slowly picked up speed and became a form of perpetual motion, The SubWay is all about traveling underground on a track that straddles chaos and meaning.

Jay MillAr's BookThug press published The SubWay in early November 2008 and it can be purchased online for $20 at www.bookthug.ca and possibly through the affiliated Apollinaire's Bookshoppe (www. apollinaires.com). It should be in your local bookstore soon or have them contact the distributor, the Literary Press Group.

Here's a sampling from the manuscript and some poems that didn't make the final cut. (Also subway photos here).

Mind the Gap

Epiphany at the subway doors

Situation at Castle Frank

Blood on the Tracks

First Subway Cars Built in Canada

Sick, decaying love

Keep on Riding

Brain Beyond the Brain

Bloor and Yonge

Strike Me Dead

Systematic Neglect

Train into the Lawrence Station

We Are Making History

Current in the Mass Brain

The Prince Edward Viaduct's Luminous Veil www.philipquinn.ca

Not Yet Born

Angel Not a poem but Meet Mr. TTC Adam Giambrone