An intimate look at one of culture’s most enduring taboos: public sex.Park Cruising takes a long look at the men who cruise for sex in urban parks. Human rights lawyer Marcus McCann uses park cruising as a point of departure for discussions of consent, empathy, public health, municipal planning, and our relationship to strangers. Prompted by his work opposing a police sting in a suburban park, McCann’s ruminations go beyond targeted enforcement and police ...

Half wisecracking tour guide and half flirtatious trick, the poems in Shut Up Slow Down Let Go Breathe examine how we respond to overwork, anxiety, and overstimulation. McCann’s third collection speaks to a world that is too busy and too anxious, delivering the material with zero reverence and with loads of self-deprecating, disarming, observational—and sometimes catty—humour. Inviting readers to be his “bandmates / on life’s slutty bus tour,” Shut Up Slow Down Let Go Breathe marks a fresh...

An intimate look at one of culture's most enduring taboos: public sex.Park Cruising takes a long look at the men who cruise for sex in urban parks. Human rights lawyer Marcus McCann uses park cruising as a point of departure for discussions of consent, empathy, public health, municipal planning, and our relationship to strangers. Prompted by his work opposing a police sting in a suburban park, McCann's ruminations go beyond targeted enforcement and police ...

A Girl Called Gale is something between a bedtime story and a fable about a Wind who can't stop moving and, with no destination of her own, finds purpose in helping others reach theirs.

The Boy Who Was Fire is a simple bedtime story that is told in a way that is meaningful and encouraging without being patronizing.It's about a Fire that is born to a Tree and a Bolt of Lightning. He soon becomes too restless and hungry to stay with his mother, so he runs away, consuming everything in his path. The Forests and the Towns become afraid because of the destruction left behind him, so he hides. And in his hiding place he grows until he is so big and bright that he can no...

The Boy Who Was Fire is a simple bedtime story that is told in a way that is meaningful and encouraging without being patronizing.It's about a Fire that is born to a Tree and a Bolt of Lightning. He soon becomes too restless and hungry to stay with his mother, so he runs away, consuming everything in his path. The Forests and the Towns become afraid because of the destruction left behind him, so he hides. And in his hiding place he grows until he is so big and bright that he can no...

The Hard Return is a broken list of metaphors for the human heart. Or its a troubling elegy for a disposable world. Alternating between loving descriptions of 21st century excess and awkward social situations, Marcus McCanns poems are sincere and ironic, sad and half-joking, often in the same instant.