Fordmates Poetry Gibbs’s poetry started to appear

Gibbs’s poetry started to appear in this publication in 1949

Erín Moure and Bronwen Wallace) and delightfully arcane (such as the etymological evolution of contranyms in Shakespeare and beyond)

and the joys of family reunions (“Dayspring Pedigree” & “The Full Menu”)

He steps out into a blinding blizzard

and includes Winter Sun and The Dumbfounding

Fordmates Poetry Gibbs’s poetry started to appearFordmates explores, with humour and poignancy, the basic conflict that exists between the demands of mass production technology and the all too human instincts, needs, and aspirations of the workers who serve on the assembly line. The stories in Fordmates ricochet headlong between comedy and tragedy, balancing the tedium and gruelling demands of the automotive assembly line with the workers gutsy attempts to preserve spirits and some semblance of