Neil Surkan

October 6, 2017

Neil Surkan is the author of the poetry collections Unbecoming (2021) and On High (2018), both from McGill-Queen’s University Press, and the chapbooks Their Queer Tenderness (Knife-Fork-Book, 2020) and Super, Natural (Anstruther Press, 2017). He lives in Calgary.


Works by Neil Surkan

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Book Reviews by Neil Surkan

Toward More Feeling
By Neil Surkan
Published in Decolonial (Re)Visions of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 240 (2020): 158-160.
  • These are not the potatoes of my youth by Matthew Walsh
  • All Day I Dream about Sirens by Domenica Martinello
  • Mad Long Emotion by Ben Ladouceur
More Life
By Neil Surkan
Published in 60th Anniversary Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 239 (2019): 130-131.
  • Braille Rainbow by Mike Barnes
  • New Brunswick by Shane Neilson
  • Wild Madder by Brenda Leifso
Welcome Refreshment
By Neil Surkan
Published in How to Be at Home in Canada: Placemaking in Indigenous, Diasporic, and Settler Texts. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 258/259 (/ 2024): 291-294.
  • Catalogue d’oiseaux by Aaron Tucker (Author)
  • sulphurtongue by Rebecca Salazar (Author)
  • A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure by Hoa Nguyen (Author)
“Goat-Stench,” Grit, Grief
By Neil Surkan
Published in Canadian Literature 250 (2022): 173-175.
  • Dirty Words: Selected Poems 1997-2016 by Carmine Starnino (Author)
Limbs, Limits, Love
By Neil Surkan
Published in Emerging Scholars, Redux Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 242 (2020): 164-165.
  • Nought by Julie Joosten
  • Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart by Beatriz Hausner
Birds and Neutrino Observatories
By Neil Surkan
Published in Rescaling CanLit: Global Readings Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 238 (2019): 104-105.
  • Midday at the Super-Kamiokande by Matthew Tierney
  • After the Hatching Oven by David Alexander
Personal Places
By Neil Surkan
Published in Rescaling CanLit: Global Readings Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 238 (2019): 114-116.
  • This Will Be Good by Mallory Tater
  • Ritual Lights by Joelle Barron
  • Little Wild by Curtis LeBlanc
Poetry
Two Channels, One Present
By Neil Surkan
Published in Lost and Found Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 236 (2018): 167-168.
  • Smaller Hours by Kevin Shaw
  • Cheer Up, Jay Ritchie by Jay Ritchie
Poetry
Fist, Fire, and Heart
By Neil Surkan
Published in Literary History. Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 233 (Summer 2017): 155-156.
  • Strike Anywhere: Essays, Reviews & Other Arsons by Michael Lista
  • Heart on Fist: Essays and Reviews 1970-2016 by M. Travis Lane and Shane Neilson (Editor)
Poetry

Poetry by Neil Surkan

Pathetic
By Neil Surkan
Published in Returns Spec. issue of Canadian Literature 243 (2020): 101.

Book Reviews of Neil Surkan's Works

On High
By Neil Surkan
Reviewed in Simply Observe by Alex Assaly