Matt Rader

Matt Rader's collection of poems, The Land Beyond, is on a double edge: the geographical edge of Canada - Vancouver Island and the City of Vancouver - and the edge of loss and despair always in, and sometimes overtaking, our lives. The Land Beyond flips from childhood memories to car crashes with the precision of a switchblade. Rader's poems are creepy tales of grieving and memory, giving the West Coast imaginary a stark, almost rustic gothic as it is hardly ever seen. The poems are about what happens beyond a given time, place, or incident, beyond the past and present, beyond memory, despair, or fear, beyond the last line.

Our First Alcuin! Matt's chapbook brought in our first Alcuin Award for Excelence in Book Design in 2004, taking 2nd place in the coveted Limited Editions category.

	Matt Rader is the publisher of Mosquito Press and co-founder of Crash: Vancouver's Indie Writer's Fest. He lives in Vancouver. Read some of Matt's work in the archive...

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Printed on acid-free 80lb Gilbert Realm Text "Natural" (trimmed), the cover on St. Armand Canal handmade 100% Jute with Canson Mi-Tientes "Ivy" flyleaves (both deckled); hand-stitched with archival waxed "natural" linen thread.

This edition is limited to 56 numbered copies, all signed by the author.

5.5" × 8.625"; 24pp.

For a closer look at this book, please visit Jason's portfolio website.

Fall 2003
ISBN 1-894744-16-0

Out of Print