<p>Half wisecracking tour guide and half flirtatious trick, the poems in <i>Shut Up Slow Down Let Go Breathe</i> examine how we respond to overwork and overstimulation. McCann’s third collection speaks to a world that is too busy and too anxious, delivering the material with zero reverence and with loads of self-deprecating, disarming, observational - and sometimes catty - humour. Inviting readers to be his “bandmates / on life’s slutty bus tour,” <i>Shut Up Slow Down Let Go Breathe</i> marks a fresh new direction in Marcus McCann’s poetics.</p><p>“McCann’s work is a must for any lover of poems.”<b>—<i>Northumberland Today</i></b></p>