Praise for Sorry About the Fire

"The poems in this slim volume, the first from artist and songwriter Colleen Coco Collins, feel richly off-kilter, exciting as they bound from earth and the material and felt treasures and on through the infinite."

—Toronto Star

"Sorry About the Fire introduces readers to an intrepid thinker and original writer who seems to relish nature as much as her Irish, French, and Odawa heritage. If Collins can teach readers just one thing, surely it's a sense of surprise, so that we too might say, 'I'm up in my head / tread, tread, tread, tread, / and you can't hold a candle to this.'"

—Literary Review of Canada

"Fealty to the sentient. To every mostleast thing, to every impulse (sentient), gesture (sentient). Re-resourcing language to equip it to be fit: bawaajigan. telamon. mothaitheacht ... Collins' Sorry About the Fire is the story of a dark time, in which the strike of language on the texture of reality sounds a sharp off-note—and sparks; and/or the story of a light-drenched time in which a sensibility cracks open, beholding/becoming."

—Luke Hathaway, author of The Affirmations

"Readers interested in entering her [Colleen Coco Collins'] manically creative world must be prepared to relinquish their preconceptions of how words and sentences ought to be linked together."

—David Starkey, California Review of Books

"Drawn to rims, arising patterns, nervy and peripheral flow, a hard-won lexicon, oblique echoes of crow, and twist of contrapposto, the Irish-French-Indigenous poet windhovers and burns through words and pages until the nadir of ember and ash."

—The Miramichi Reader

"Colleen Coco Collins employs vocabulary as a joyful precision tool, re-earthing the intimate relations between wonder, grief, and the more-than-human world. Embodying the playful and destructive energy of the cosmos, her poems vibrate like some kind of ancient, sacred rock & roll."

—Shary Boyle