Army of the Brave and Accidental

by Alex Boyd

  Acknowledgements

  My thanks to Silas White, Nathaniel Moore and everyone at Nightwood Editions, including Amber McMillan for the careful edit of the book.

  I’m grateful to my friends, in particular Pino Coluccio, for their unfailing interest in seeing this book published. Thanks also to my entire family for their support. To Elizabeth and our children: becoming a father has helped infuse this book with meaning I didn’t know it would have at the start: thank you.

  Thank you to the Ontario Arts Council for the financial support through the Writers’ Reserve program.

  Photo credit: Derek Wuenschirs

  About the Author

  Alex Boyd writes poems, fiction, reviews and essays, which have appeared in many publications such as The Globe and Mail and Taddle Creek. He helped establish Best Canadian Essays, co-editing the first two collections of work selected from Canadian magazines. Boyd’s poetry collections include Making Bones Walk (2007), winner of the Gerald Lampert Award for best first book of poems in Canada, and more recently The Least Important Man (2012). He lives in Toronto.