Matt Rader: 4 books

What I Want to Tell Goes Like This is an intensely original first short story collection from acclaimed poet Matt Rader. The last story, "All This Was a Long Time Ago," is the 2014 winner of the Jack Hodgins Founders' Award for fiction from The Malahat Review, and other offerings from the...

The thirty-six writers of the 2015 Writer’s Studio — under the mentorship of Kevin Chong, Hiromi Goto, JJ Lee, Meredith Quartermain, and Wayde Compton — present their work in the Studio’s fifteenth annual anthology, emerge 15. This year’s guest editor, poet and short story author, Matt Rader,...

A luminous new collection of poems about entering middle age, living a life of books, and trying to know what it means to be or not be from or of a place. If pattern is information, and verse the mind's conversation with Time, Matt Rader's Desecrations animates a theatre of silence we recognize...

Composed over a period of profound illness, Visual Inspection is a searching reflection on poetry, power and our embodied lives. Shaped by matching elements of literary history, poetic practice, contemporary art, politics and ecology with Rader’s own experience of chronic illness and pain, Visual...