Pangborn Defence

Norm Sibum: Norm Sibum has been writing and publishing poetry for over thirty years. Born in Oberammergau in 1947, he grew up in Germany, Alaska, Utah, and Washington before moving to Vancouver in 1968. He has published several volumes of poetry in Canada and England. A joint U.S.-Canadian citizen, Sibum currently lives and works in Montreal, Quebec.

"This semi-epistolary form comes out of a long tradition made fresh in Sibum's hands by his contemporary diction and topics, and by the undeniable energy, intelligence, and frankness of the poems. The book is a meditative rant, full of fire and play yanked up short by dead-seriousness."&#8212Western News "The fare Sibum provides covers the four spiritual food groups - humour, seriousness, discipline, humility - and is therefore wholesome and nutritive."&#8212David Solway, Director's Cut "He creates a very original kind of dialectic between present and past, in which each illuminates and penetrates the other...there is in his approach none of that bright postmodern cynicism that makes everything grist to the solipsistic mill of the present."&#8212Poetry Nation