Order in Which We Do Things

Tom Wayman has published nineteen poetry collections, edited six anthologies of poets writing about their employment, and published three collections of essays on labour arts. He has taught at the post-secondary level in the United States and Canada and co-founded the Vancouver Industrial Writers Union and the Vancouver Centre of the Kootenay School of Writing. Wayman has been the recipient of several significant literary awards over his career, most recently the 2013 Acorn-Plantos Award for People's Poetry for his book Dirty Snow.Owen Percy is a teacher, writer, editor, and critic of North American and postcolonial literature. He earned his Ph.D. in Canadian literature and literary culture from the University of Calgary in 2010. He is a professor of literary studies at Sheridan College in Brampton, Ontario

• The Order in Which We Do Things: The Poetry of Tom Wayman, selected with an introduction by Owen PercyForeword, Neil Besner Biographical Note Introduction: Wayman in Print: ""He Do the Polis in Different Voices,"" Owen Percy Days: ConstructionPicketing SupermarketsWayman in LoveThe Country of Everyday: Literary CriticismThe Factory HourThe Old PowerIndustrial MusicFactory Time Garrison Friday Night in Early September at Morris and Sara Wayman's Farm, Roseneath, Ontario White Hand Silos Paper, Scissors, Stone The Face of Jack MunroA Cursing Poem: This Poem Wants Gordon Shrum to Die The Poet Defective Parts of Speech: Official Errata Did I Miss Anything? The Man Who Logged the West Ridge For William Stafford (1914-1993) War on a Round Planet Cup Epithalamium for a Former Lover Calgary Postmodern 911 Mt. Gimli PashtunAir SupportWhistleThe White DogsMinutesBreathAfterword: Work and Silence, Tom Wayman Acknowledgements

``Wayman...believes that poetry exists beyone 'the money economy' and because of this freedom it creates the highest potential to drive social change. His concerns are humanist and folksy, infused with the moral responsibility of integrity. This series, because of its...scope and space...allows the reader to see how Wayman's immersions in these moral concerns have developed and morphed from those of the lowly factory worker to those of acute environmental observance. Always the poems are permeated by intense attention to...a sense of justice.'' -- Micheline Maylor -- Alberta Views, June 2014, 201406