Some Comments on the Work of Michael Bullock

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"Your book delighted me. Your stories are in exactly the vein that I wish to encourage - not only imaginative and very surrealistic in the best sense, but witty."

Anais Nin, in a letter to the author

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"The rare quality in Mr. Bullock's stories is the graceful and potent interchange in them of reality and fantasy, the supple flow of imagery"

Dorothy Bishop, Ottawa Journal

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"These short stories are weird but fascinating; their meaning maddeningly elusive... The Sixteen Stories are beautifully written. They are the product of a wildly original imagination..."

C.E.C., Montreal Gazette

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"Bullock is a master of fantasy, nightmare and enigma... This highly personal development of surrealism is both witty and disturbing."

Paul Green, Vancouver Sun

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"Without a doubt, the exotic nature of Bullock's fables bears witness to one of the most wildly imaginative minds ever to reach the printed page."

Wendy Jeffries, Hamilton Spectator

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"The reader should not read these fables as if they were short stories, he should study them as if they were lyric poems, they demand that type of care and attention."

Richard Hopkins, British Columbia Library Quarterly

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"Talent and labour have produced these polished gnostic visions... Words become things, things in turn menace writer and reader, since for the gnostic, reality is always a malefic vision: these simulacra called fables both mime and are the world beyond the trapped self."

John Reid, Canadian Literature

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"Michael Bullock is one of the most vivid, mysterious, and technically proficient poets writing in English today."

Andrew Parkin, Issue Magazine

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"Bullock concocts verbal miniatures that have the subtle effect of a lingering perfume without substance, like the poesie pure of Mallarme."

Jack Stewart, World Literature Today

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"Bullock has been quietly, unassumingly producing an original and highly skilled poetry that has gradually made a permanent place in Canadian and world literature."

Brown Miller, San Jose Mercury News

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"This is the kind of poem I should like to have written myself."

Sir Herbert Read, in a letter to the author

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"Michael Bullock, a grand master of contemporary surrealism, plunges into the fathomless depths of the unconscious once again..."

Neil Querengesser, Canadian Literature

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