Snatch is a hilarious and creepy collection of poems that may not even be poetry at all. Like a comic novel from an alternate universe, or a fragmented hoax of an autobiography, Snatch picks at the vacuous horror of suburbia and exposes a world of small beauty and perfect moments amid TV-induced nostalgia and impending violence. In her mysterious and funny debut, everybody's favourite Surrey grrrl, Judy MacInnes Jr. makes the complex seem simple, the simple complex, and she has an unearthly talent for making the reader laugh out loud while doing it.

Praise for Snatch:

"Even if you hate poetry, Snatch goes down kind of like a root beer float, all frothy and fizzy and real smooth." (The Coast)

"I love Snatch. ... an impressive debut collection. It is exciting, fresh, perceptive; a complete package that will help bring Canadian poetry into the 21st century. Congratulations, Judy MacInnes Jr., I can't wait to read what you come up with next." (Marita Dachsel, author of Glossolalia, Eliza Roxcy Snow, and All Things Said & Done, in a review for cancon)

"If Snatch, a stylish little CD-sized book of poetry by Vancouver writer Judy MacInnes Jr. were a food, it would be Kraft Dinner. Practical yet an indulgence, simple yet nostalgia-inducing, comforting yet charming. ... a fun series of solid, poetically narrative scraps." (Herizons)

Judy MacInnes Jr. was born in Prince George, BC in 1970. Raised in Surrey, a graduate of Kwantlen College, the University of Victoria (BFA), and the University of British Columbia (MFA), Judy has worked in the film industry since 1994. Her writing has been anthologized in Northwest Edge: New Writing from the Pacific Northwest (Two Girls), Breathing Fire: Canada's New Poets (Harbour), Eye Wuz Here: Women Writers Under Thirty (Douglas & McIntyre), In the Trenches (Anvil, forthcoming), and has appeared in a number of literary magazines, including Other Voices, Room of One's Own, CV2, Geist, Prism International, Blood & Aphorisms, The Capilano Review, Prairie Fire, and subTerrain. She lives in Vancouver with screenwriter Andrew McEvoy.

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