Polaroids of Tomorrow captures the ache of living in an age of collapse—personal, political, and spiritual. In these unflinching poems, Andrew Lafleche photographs the present with the precision of an infantry soldier and the vulnerability of a man stripped bare. From war memories and failed marriages to late-night wanderings through Costa Rica’s shadowed streets, Lafleche writes with a clear-eyed intensity that refuses sentimentality. The voice is confessional yet controlled, raw yet deliberate—an honesty few poets risk. Through sharp, cinematic verse, the collection confronts alienation, addiction, and the absurdity of modern survival. What emerges is a portrait of endurance: a poet wrestling to stay human in a world that keeps eroding. Polaroids of Tomorrow is both documentation and protest—a fierce, unsparing vision of what it means to persist when everything else has already been consumed by the flame. It’s what remains when tomorrow finally arrives.
Having served under Operation Enduring Freedom in the Afghanistan War, Andrew John Lafleche followed up his duty as an infantry soldier in the Canadian Armed Forces by receiving an M.A. in Creative and Critical Writing from the University of Gloucestershire. He is an award-winning poet and novelist, and his work has appeared in over 100 journals and magazines across Canada, the United States, India and the UK. An avid runner and disciplined student of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Andrew calls Ottawa home.
