About Spirit Engine by John Donlan, Judith Fitzgerald writes:  “A brilliant wordsmith, Donlan writes circles around many of his contemporaries and, in so doing, creates a world where all remains redolent with the radiant sheen of life, writ lush with largesse and a kind of courage to express both humour and humility through deeply moving meditations that leave “the mutter and ache/ and fuss of self” in the rubble and ruin of so-called contemporary civilization.”

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The Globe 100 – “Our 12th annual pick of the 100 best and most influential books of the year includes prize-winners and surprises, writers already famous and those about to be, prose and poetry, science and social studies, memoir and manifesto.  All in all, a great year of reading.”  The Editors