Susan Holbrook is a poet and fiction writer whose first book, misled, was shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Memorial Award and the Stephen J. Stephensson Award. Her chapbook Good Egg Bad Seed was published by Nomados in 2004. She teaches North American literatures and creative writing at the University of Windsor. She recently co-edited The Letters of Gertrude Stein and Virgil Thomson: Composition as Conversation (forthcoming from Oxford University Press, 2009).

'Clever and dizzying.' -- Uptown 'With Joy Is So Exhausting, Holbrook gives us humour, bluntness, shrugs of shoulders, and -- yes -- joy ... rife with tongue-in-cheek observation.' -- Northern Poetry Review 'This collection is a cornucopia of poetic delight. Holbrook comes at you from all directions, assaulting you with the slam-bam of lyric, prose, and a well-honed sense of humour.' -- Prairie Fire 'If the old adage is right that honey attracts more than vinegar does, then Susan Holbrook's Joy Is So Exhausting gives potential cynics so much humour that they can laugh themselves back to that moment in high school when they started to hate poetry in the first place.' -- Georgia Straight 'Holbrook is a poet of Rabelaisian intensity who ranges from sprawling prose to word-play couplets. These litanies are political, bawdy, word-drunk, and anything but exhausting.' -- Eye Weekly

Susan Holbrook is a poet and fiction writer whose first book, misled, was shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Memorial Award and the Stephen J. Stephensson Award. Her chapbook Good Egg Bad Seed was published by Nomados in 2004. She teaches North American literatures and creative writing at the University of Windsor. She recently co-edited The Letters of Gertrude Stein and Virgil Thomson: Composition as Conversation (forthcoming from Oxford University Press, 2009).

'Clever and dizzying.' -- Uptown 'With Joy Is So Exhausting, Holbrook gives us humour, bluntness, shrugs of shoulders, and -- yes -- joy ... rife with tongue-in-cheek observation.' -- Northern Poetry Review 'This collection is a cornucopia of poetic delight. Holbrook comes at you from all directions, assaulting you with the slam-bam of lyric, prose, and a well-honed sense of humour.' -- Prairie Fire 'If the old adage is right that honey attracts more than vinegar does, then Susan Holbrook's Joy Is So Exhausting gives potential cynics so much humour that they can laugh themselves back to that moment in high school when they started to hate poetry in the first place.' -- Georgia Straight 'Holbrook is a poet of Rabelaisian intensity who ranges from sprawling prose to word-play couplets. These litanies are political, bawdy, word-drunk, and anything but exhausting.' -- Eye Weekly

Susan Holbrook is a poet and fiction writer whose first book, misled, was shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Memorial Award and the Stephen J. Stephensson Award. Her chapbook Good Egg Bad Seed was published by Nomados in 2004. She teaches North American literatures and creative writing at the University of Windsor. She recently co-edited The Letters of Gertrude Stein and Virgil Thomson: Composition as Conversation (forthcoming from Oxford University Press, 2009).

'Clever and dizzying.' -- Uptown 'With Joy Is So Exhausting, Holbrook gives us humour, bluntness, shrugs of shoulders, and -- yes -- joy ... rife with tongue-in-cheek observation.' -- Northern Poetry Review 'This collection is a cornucopia of poetic delight. Holbrook comes at you from all directions, assaulting you with the slam-bam of lyric, prose, and a well-honed sense of humour.' -- Prairie Fire 'If the old adage is right that honey attracts more than vinegar does, then Susan Holbrook's Joy Is So Exhausting gives potential cynics so much humour that they can laugh themselves back to that moment in high school when they started to hate poetry in the first place.' -- Georgia Straight 'Holbrook is a poet of Rabelaisian intensity who ranges from sprawling prose to word-play couplets. These litanies are political, bawdy, word-drunk, and anything but exhausting.' -- Eye Weekly