The Hebdomeros Suite is a species of surrealist exercises, born of plundering words and phrases from Hebdomeros, the only novel ever written by painter Giorgio de Chirico. Once the purloined words began to agglomerate and to build into poems, Hebdomeros became – through this poet’s eye – a rather irascible mini-dictator ruling over an unruly realm (perhaps the Self) upon which he seems to want to impose ideas of order and beauty.In much the same way, the Bronzino Poems, a companion suite to the Hebdomeros Suite, began with Mr. Dault reading and then deliberately mis-reading Deborah Parker’s book, Bronzino: Renaissance Painter and Poet. The resulting poems are all about making art, and about just making in general.

Gary Michael Dault is a Toronto writer, artist and art critic. He has taught at a number of Canadian universities and written for many newspapers and magazines including the Toronto Star and Canadian Art magazine. He currently writes the ÒGallery Going' column for the Globe and Mail. He is also a regular contributor to a number of TV networks including CBC, CTV, Bravo!, Vision TV, and, most frequently, to TVO's Studio 2. His many books include collaborations with artists Tony Urquhart and Edward Burtynsky, and his poetry has previously been gathered in the books Flying Fish and other poems, and In Smoke.

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