Hard Electric is Michael Blouin's third book of poetry, a road-tripping, bridge-burning collection of the author's hard-won and soft-edged reflections that seem to stutter-step towards resolution while tumbling down a decided slant towards disaster. Where Does My Heart Beat Now was Celine Dion's first North American hit and in it she asks: 'Where do all the lonely hearts go?'

In Hard Electric Blouin presents a bleakly unsettling but ultimately life-affirming treatise that hints at his fascination with the same question and perhaps shuffles into the neighbourhood of an answer. That neighbourhood is peopled with the late-night bars of Key West's Duval Street, the sharp spice of BBQ joints, sunburned beach motels and Christmas lights frozen to February trees. And Susan Sarandon's cousin.

It's a book not for the faint of heart, but for the lonely hearted, and for those who know them well. (From Anvil Press)

Blouin is a writer from Ontario. Blouin won the 2020 ReLit Award for his novel Skin House. He previously won the ReLit Award in 2009 for his debut novel Chase and Haven.

Blouin was a finalist for the 2009 CBC Poetry Prize for his poem fidelity which is included in Hard Electric.