Poetry Link: Poetry Month on In Other Words

Open Book is celebrating National Poetry Month with daily profiles of today's "unacknowledged legislators of the world." Find out what inspires, confounds and delights the poets behind this spring's new releases by following our series.

Shane Neilson is a family physician who has written numerous books of poetry, all of which show fealty to his rural New Brunswick origins. The poems in his newest collection, Complete Physical (Porcupine's Quill), address the most important question that the physical begs: How are we to live in this world? Neilson writes, "The poems make that question tangential, they throw in details to make the poem fastenable…but they are always answering in earnest."