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A Review of Empties by Neil Surkan (McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2026)
reviewed by dalton derkson In his 1906 novel, The Jungle, Upton Sinclair writes: “All this was bad, and yet it was not the worst.” Is it an odd choice of quotation with which to open a review of a new book of poems? Sure. However, I do not invoke Sinclair to imply that Neil Surkan’s…




