DC Reid’s new book of poems, You Shall Have No Other, is a daring technical and psychological achievement. The poems are manifest in four different, tangible, printed-page books, each with its own individual cover and interior images to present multiple interpretations of the same poems: war; beauty; religion; and, sex. The book asks: how do we understand the world? The tangible book also has novel conventions including character, time sequence, and point of view, following Sandria as she moves through the middle of her life dealing with abuse suffered as a child, and in creating an artificial intelligence, Cloudio, to help in her therapeutic search. Where she ends is a moral dilemma.

DC Reid is a writer and poet whose work lives in multiple disciplines: web-based video-poems for his book You Shall Have No Other on www.sandria.ca; environmental writing, for which he has won multiple awards including the Roderick Haig-Brown Award; and novels. His poetry has won silver in the Bliss Carman Award twice, among twenty other awards including the Colleen Thibaudeau award for significant support of Canadian poetry. He is a former president of the League of Canadian Poets and the Federation of BC Writers. He released a memoir of decades spent on the Nitinat River titled A Man and His River, published with Hancock House Publishers in 2022, and his most recent publication, Selected and New Poems, is his sixteenth book. DC is broadly known for extensive writing on in-ocean fish farms; neuroplasticity and extensive creativity mechanisms. He lives in Victoria, BC. www.dcreid.ca

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