About Catch as Catch:
possesses a rare gift for the sounds and smells and flashes locked in our language
 --Prairie Fire

About Misshapen:
Winnipeg writer Rob Budde has hammered together a perfect little book.
–See Magazine

The grandest thing about Misshapen is not its subject–a turn-of-the-century freak show–but its charm.
 –The Edmonton Journal

The author knows how to pile one clever image on top of another so that the whole is more than the sum of its parts. The circus motif is explored from every angle….

 An economy of phrase is another of Budde’s strengths. "We were asleep in their stories, they were asleep to dream us," he writes with a simplicity that satisfies.
-- Literature and Language: CBRA
 Misshapen is an exceptionally well crafted fiction…
 -- The Midwest Book Review
Backed by solid research about the heyday of circus sideshows—gleaned through research at the Circus World Museum in Baraboo, Wisconsin—Budde’s first novel weaves fiction and fact, using a rich cast of characters as the glue that keeps it all together.
-- See Magazine

 
First published as a poet (his first book Catch as Catch appeared in 1994), Budde writes prose that becomes increasingly poetic as Misshapen goes on—as if to train the reader in the book’s language...
--Ffwd

 

About traffick:
Budde's traffick proceeds through flash and detour, where meaning is cracked open, and in which each line represents the uncontrolled intersections of word and thought.
 --Canadian Literature

Budde has managed to transport to us an explosive text of acrobatic and infinitely intriguing poems.
—Matrix


About The Dying Poem:

. . . his beautiful second novel . . . luminous, wry, and unflinchingly macabre . . . a stunning work . . .
 --The Globe & Mail

Budde performs the otherworldly feat of dancing with the articulate ghost of language, savouring the sweet pressure of every syllable of every word.
--Aritha van Herk

Budde is in the forefront of the generation of writers whose talent migrates through language and narrative and image.
--Robert Kroetsch

 

About Flicker:

 Budde is a formidable force in Canadian literature.
--Endtype
Rob Budde sees what glimmers at the edge of our peripheral vision.
--The Georgia Straight
the pages of his book bubble with satisfying sentences
--Prairie Fire

 

About Finding Ft. George:

 verse bursting with energy. . . he is well on his way to becoming a major Canadian poet
--Prairie Fire Review of Books
Rob Budde's latest collection of poems Finding Ft. George is a unique look at settling into a new community and making it a home. With poems delving into every aspect of Prince George, British Columbia, Budde's collection reveals aspects of life in a small town that usually go unnoticed by people... The language Budde employs is concise, with each image working together to create a complete picture of Prince George for the reader. Also, the idea of the 'poem' itself occurs in most of Budde's work. The result of such a rhetorical device is the feeling that the reader is being given the opportunity to experience the intimacy of Budde's unique point of view, just as it unravels.

-- JIVE Magazine

 

Finding Ft. George will enhance Budde's already growing reputation
--Doug Barbour, Canadian Literature

 
Finding Ft. George shows an important new direction in not only his personal poetic, but in the poetics of Prince George.
--Antigonish Review