Shortlisted for the 2020 Raymond Souster Award
CBC Canadian Poetry Book of the Year
Quill & Quire Cover of the Year
Quill & Quire Starred Review

“In Drolleries, Cassidy McFadzean finds beauty in both earthly monsters and the heavenly art that such beasts inspire. Nymphs, ghosts, fortune-tellers, and other fantastic characters clash in disorienting narratives that illuminate uncomfortable truths about the way history repeats itself across time and space. “I’ve been reading the news / so much it’s entered me” McFadzean writes in “Study of a Torso,” and her poems have a similar effect, drilling down with mnemonic power that will stick in reader’s minds.”
-Raymond Souster Award Jury Citation

“Drolleries is a manifesto for self-realization by way of investigating the nature of romantic relationships, the allure of art and the structures of power — from fallible and transformative angles.”
-CBC Best Canadian Poetry of 2019

“So many of the themes explored by Cassidy McFadzean in her second collection poetry – the natural world, ancient mythology, Renaissance art, women in history – reverberate in the illustration chosen for its cover, German astronomer Maria Clara Eimmart’s Aspect of Saturn.”
-Quill and Quire Cover of the Year 

Reviews:
“The power of a woman in the heat of her physical and mystical prowess”
–Quill & Quire

“Moving, compelling, and cheeringly idiosyncratic.”
-Publishers Weekly

“A collection of endless curiosity filled with poems that do not sit still”
-Periodicities

“A witty collection, infusing sarcastic humour into witchcraft and sorcery”
-Arc Poetry Magazine

“Drolleries is a collection to read many times over.”
–Canadian Notes & Queries

“McFadzean combines the paced craft of metred pieces with sudden raunchiness.”
–The Malahat Review

“This book is a must have for its breadth of skill”
–Freefall

“Books like Drolleries don’t come along that often in poetry world.”
-Today’s Book of Poetry

“Lyrical and original, Drolleries establishes McFadzean as a poet of the highest order.”
-Read It Forward

Interviews:
PRISM international
Event Magazine
The Iowa Review
Page Fright
Me, My Shelf and I
Get Lit Episode 129

Excerpts:
League of Canadian Poets Poetry Pause
Penguin Random House Canada
Penguin Random House #Pause4Poetry

Lesson Plan:
Toronto Writing Project
Download Greek Myth and Contemporary Poetry lesson plan (PDF)

Previews:
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CBC Books- 11 collections from up-and-coming Canadian poets
Globe Books– Your 2019 winter reading list
CBC Books- 20 works of Canadian poetry to check out in spring 2019
Artsfile 2019 Book List
49th Shelf- Most Anticipated: Our 2019 Spring Poetry Preview