From its quirky sonnets on each of Canadas Prime Ministers to its ruminations on the history and landscape that have helped mould this country, Ways redirection is solidly a Canadian book. The poems are a tour-de-force that shifts in genre, tone, style and theme. Modernist interests are fused with postmodern sensibilities-anything goes as the poems slide from topic to topic, form to form. A charming "ode of sorts" on Al Purdy gives way to a sustained ode on the death of the authors great uncle in World War I, a satire about the odd compulsion of neighbours to decorate their driveways sits...