Derek Webster is the author of Mockingbird, finalist for the Gerald Lampert Award, and the founding editor of Maisonneuve magazine.
November 3, 2017
Drakkar Noir, Dodds's second collection, is quite a return: Dodds re-inhabits his own gory, gothic world with the relish of a contemporary Lord Byron. The title references an arch brand of ’80s cologne, and many poems have a sardonic, sledgehammer musk made up of off-kilter epigrams, heavy rhyming puns, and scenarios that display a fury at the selfishness and idiocy of humans.
