Celebrated author, scholar, and Poet Laureate of Toronto, George Elliott Clarke has glowingly reviewed Jono’s transgressive debut, Simple Simony, in The Chronicle Herald, which Borden’s readers can glance on here.

Referring to Jono as “brazen,” Clarke posits that the Provocateur-Poet is “set to rise from obscurity,” comparing Borden to Byron, Blake, Laforgue, Dylan, Cohen, and even Hendrix, likening him to a “great, rock songsmith,” saying of Jono, “Dude’s got guts!”