Wayne Clifford (1944?2025) was the author of nineteen books of poetry, including Flying the Truck (New Brunswick Museum), Theseus (Book*hug), and four volumes of The Exile's Papers (Porcupine's Quill Press). Clifford published poems in an incredibly broad range of journals?from Canadian Forum to avant-garde magazines like bill bissett's Blewointment, bpNichol's ganglia, and Sheila Watson's White Pelican. He lived in Halifax where the benign seclusion of obscurity was conducive to sonneteering.