The Endless Animal

The poems in The Endless Animal dwell where the desire haunted, metaphysical habitat of a human consciousness meets an animal kingdom of actual and archetypal beasts. Alongside lyrically charged explorations of the self, you’ll find a Basho-inspired haibun that invokes both David Bowie and the ghosts of Kyoto, an 11th-century monk obsessed with fashioning wings, and the first NASA space monkey to survive returning to Earth from orbit. In this collection, Nathan Mader wrestles with spirituality, bisexual eroticism, art, various animal ecologies, and the culturally defined notions of masculinity he encountered growing up on the Canadian prairies while remaining open to the imaginative possibilities of poetry. 

About the author

Nathan Mader’s poems have previously been published in The Fiddlehead, Plenitude, The Ex-Puritan, The Antigonish Review, Grain, PRISM, Vallum, Rilking, and The New Quarterly. He was included in The Best Canadian Poetry 2018 (Tightrope Books) and was a finalist for The Walrus Poetry Prize.