From the Reviews:
 

"From the first page, I was gripped by Glickman's clear voice, and her frankness soon earned my trust.  Even in her earliest poems, she is adept at capturing mood in her narrative, realist style--the bravery required of living alone, for example, or the trepidatious hope brought on by a day of false spring.  But what wins me is Glickman's ability to tackle big emotions while confronting ambivalences."                                     

           --Sonnet L'Abbé, Globe & Mail,  Saturday, July 17, 2004

"Intelligence, compassion and wit permeate Glickman's writing.  She seems to have more of an understanding than most people of what life is all about and the scope of topics – about which Glickman seems quite knowledgeable – is impressive."

        -- Pat Johnson and Cynthia Ramsay, The Western Jewish Bulletin, November 19, 2004.

"Glickman  (is) capable of unpredictable metaphor, and those insights toward which every poet strives: the ones that startle with both truth and originality.  She allows herself the freedom to stumble on unexpected associations and to run with them.  She can string together a solid line, can carry a poem to its logical -- or, even better, illogical -- end.  Her toolkit contains wisdom, perspective, humour…She exploits the personal, but judiciously; she is not a navel-gazer.  Her subject matter is neither self-indulgent nor small time."

                --Anita Lahey,  The Malahat Review,  Winter 2005

"Susan Glickman is a poet of astonishing versatility and skill.  She is able to carry off the long poem and the sequence in a way that few contemporary poets can.  Her best poems are infused with an intelligent irony, which makes them instantly likeable, but not at all throwaway or glib. And if the new poems included here are any sort of guide, she still seems to be growing as a poet, at a stage in her career when many would be content to rest on their reputations."

                --Kevin Higgins,  Books in Canada,  March 2005, 29-30

"It was a treat to be able to trace Susan Glickman’s career through its various creative and domestic stages in her Running in Prospect Cemetery: New and Selected Poems.     Do all volumes of selected poetry imply a sp    irit of nostalgia, not just a look back, but a desire to repossess what recedes from us? …I think of Glickman as a kind of prophet of household immediacy, both its redemptive joys and its complicated relationship with a writer’s creative imperatives …I’m not sure why, but Glickman’s voice always makes me think of the person who will keep everyone’s spirits up while the ship is sinking, but who you know probably cries herself to sleep at night. Perhaps it’s her ability just to keep writing about what is in front of her .the distraction that with careful handling can become the point of it all. " 

                --Jeffrey Donaldson, University of Toronto Quarterly 75, Winter 2006, 49.

Two earlier volumes are still available

Hide & Seek
(Montreal: Vehicule Press, 1995)

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Henry Moore's Sheep and Other Poems
(Montreal: Vehicule Press, 1900)
                                                                                                                                                                                 
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My first two collections,  The Power to Move (1986) and  Complicity (1983), both also from Vehicule Press, are out of print. The best poems from those two collections may be found in Running in Prospect Cemetery.