WARNING Cruise Missile Liberals contains few proper poems. That is poems with proper manners proper etiquette or proper service to our national narratives. Poems that reassure the powerful.Poems that lie inertwith the smell of the museums. Poems that are in a word nice. Instead Spencer Gordons debut smoulders with explosive contradictionwith a charismatic voice that rewires what we could ask for in a collection. Blending gaudy lyrical excess with blemishridden found material it presents the reader with guilty pleasurable collisions. It is of the wretched present online urban urbane and sweetly ironic. These are poems of play rant irreverence and lip of sparkling newness haunted by the opulent hungry dead. Works brimming with cheek that every so often stiffen to a punch to the gut. Like an updated Civil Elegies for a digital generation Cruise Missile Liberals is a blistering debut from an author leaving his own bitemark on Canadian Literature. Advance Praise Spencer Gordons Cruise Missile Liberalsis as its title suggests a very funny often despairing book. Jammed with onpoint pop and breathtaking turns of phrase this collection of poems is genuinely compelling it is hard to stop reading so sweetly twisted is Gordons world. Lynn Crosbie Author of Where Did You Sleep Last Night Life Is About Losing Everything and Liar Hot hot hot Spencer Gordons Cruise Missile Liberals is an exquisitely detailed and passionately directed collection which finds vibrant resolve at the intersection of nation and art. With considerable heart and thrilling precision these poems gratefully adopt the argot and trouble of the times and they discover a much different Canada sweet with chipmunks and as untameable as Sk8er Boi. David McGimpsey author of Asbestos Heights There is a generosity of spirit on offer here for we who are tired placeless saturated in social media and wasted on the bright horror of a future that never arrives. This collection is deft intelligent and tender if tenderness is