He is the author of Phyllis Webb and the Common Good and Through Words of Others. His most recent book of poetry, On the Material, won the BC Book Prize for poetry. Graham Lyons is a doctoral candidate at Simon Fraser University. His research traverses the twentieth century, with a particular focus on cultural theory, historiography, autobiography, and the Frankfurt school of Marxism. He has published on Walter Benjamin, Louis Zukofsky, and the Star Wars films.