Airstream Land Yacht

...more contemplative, more world-weary, more overtly philosophical (than Mean)....the love poems in this book are a real accomplishment. * Arc Poetry Magazine *
...one of the most daring, progressive, frustrating, and exhilarating poetry books in years. * Books In Canada *
As Auden was to the English 1930's, so too is Ken Babstock to the Canadian 2000's - the key figure of the under-40's generation...perhaps the most important poetry book yet from any Canadian born in the 1970's or beyond...a hauntingly thoughtful meditation on awareness and responsibility for others. * Globe and Mail *
Babstock's ear remains finely attuned. Always adept at capturing speech cadences, in these new poems he plumbs as much from the jumpy rhythms of thought, and what gets sacrificed in accessibility is more than made up for in surprise...Babstock's courageous lack of complacency in deviating so drastically from his excellent past work confirms him as one of the country's finest poets. * Quill & Quire *
In Babstock's work there is a sense of down-home intellectual, country tunes that David Bowie might compose. * Malahat Review *
Ken Babstock is no regular middle-of-the-pack poet...there's almost a tactile pleasure in how words sound, and a multitude of striking phrases vivid to both the ear and the eye...Airstream Land Yacht is poetry that hums along in high gear. * Toronto Star *
Reading Ken Babstock is like following the trunk of a tree upward as it divides and subdivides, fraying into the finest threads until a beautiful but complex circuitry webs the sky. Simply put, he makes the brain hurt, forcing us to exert that dusty 90 per cent we rarely use....a seductive, exquisitely crafted look at the overlay of the wordless visible world and the conscious act of mapping that world. * Edmonton Journal *