About the Author

Jim Johnstone obtained his MSc in Reproductive Physiology from The University of Toronto. In 2006, he received the E J Pratt Medal and Prize in Poetry for his chapbook Siamese poems. Currently, he edits Misunderstandings Magazine, a literary journal he co-founded in 2005.

Reviews

Patternicity transforms the mundane into the otherworldly ... it's a compelling system of thought.
―Mark Callanan, Quill & Quire

Award-winning and full of thought, Jim Johnstone brings readers a fresh experience with Patternicity. Seeking to explore language and how it often fails to truly get the message across, Patternicity is a read that shouldn't be missed by any poetry lover.
―Small Press Bookwatch (Oregon)

I love Patternicity for its dirty noises. These are stylized, energized, slightly alarming poems tilted by scientific perspectives and ridden with violence, "meat stink," blood and decay; poems that try to celebrate the "flanks / of hog, skinned heads lopped off / and honeyed." Jim Johnstone's forms are shapely, but feral. His music is beautifully rational, complex and charismatic.
―Carmine Starnino

This tight collection gains interest from the broad base of its scientific reference and historical scope, not
to mention its linguistic density and reach.
―Gillian Harding-Russell, Prairie Fire Review of Books