news | Monday September 15, 2025

tours, variously Has Arrived!

Hot off the press! Drew McEwan’s new poetry collection tours, variously has landed and is ready to embark on a tour of your bookshelf. Asking how words form spaces of shifting relation, tours, variously dwells on narration as an operation that works on spaces and bodies as they negotiate their place among framed exhibits and pinned specimens ready for misrecognition.

An excerpt from “theory of rooms”:

“Advice:

Lay out the ground lines the length and breadth of the monument proposed.
Collect foliage for the upper tier, browned leaves for flooring.
What remains ever exterior to thought is thought.
Lay bare the concrete while still damp.
Place visionary on paper, anticipate business to come.
The room does not exist before revealing itself.”

The poems of tours, variously saunter through an abstracted network of transformational encounters where bodies struggle with and against a game of follow-the-leader, postured by the series of connected rooms we share, treading always between the sayable and the unsaid. Pick up your copy here.