Michael Prior's poems have appeared in many publications across North America and the UK. Winner of Walrus's Poetry Prize, Matrix Magazine's LitPop Award, Grain's Short Grain Contest, Magma Poetry's Editors' Prize and Vallum's Poetry Prize, Michael currently resides in Ithaca, New York, where he is an MFA candidate in poetry at Cornell University.
"Model Disciple comes alive in its beautiful precision of detail,
defamiliarizing language, resonant music, and deep intimacy. These
poems are lyrical accounts of the natural world intersecting with
the manmade. They are viscerally present, and felt, written to
illuminate and endure." --Hannah Sanghee Park, author, The
Same-Different
"In many ways--the range of interests, quality of language, the
attention to rhythm--Prior's work is a kind of blend of P. K. Page
and Karen Solie, but I make those comparisons only to say that his
work is already polished and self-assured." --Jay Ruzesky, The
Malahat Review
"With Model Disciple, Michael Prior launches, fully-armed, into the
fray, taking on the topics of love, loss, war and cultural identity
with a combination of fierceness and delicacy so rare in a first
collection. Prior's book swarms with presences both animal and
human, as well as spectral; it bristles with texture and glows with
unforgettable images that are laden with both ghastliness and
grace." --Alexandra Oliver, author, Meeting the Tormentors in
Safeway and Let the Empire Down
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