Winner of the 2006 A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry and shortlisted for the McAuslan First Book Prize (Quebec Writers’ Federation).
Shortlisted for the 2007 Pat Lowther Award and the 2007 ReLit Awards.
Poems that reach towards...
Winner of the 2006 A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry and shortlisted for the McAuslan First Book Prize (Quebec Writers’ Federation).
Shortlisted for the 2007 Pat Lowther Award and the 2007 ReLit Awards.
Poems that reach towards...
Immigrant Blues, an extension and deepening of the famous poems of the siege of Sarajevo translated in Simic’s Sprinting from the Graveyard (Oxford, 1997), explores the personal and the public devastations of war,...
“… like Emily Dickinson, Hartog melds the ordinary with the visionary….” — Joseph Stroud, author of Below Cold Mountain and Country of Light
Ink Monkey is Diana Hartog’s first book of poetry in more...
Shortlisted for the 2006 Gerald Lampert Award
Inter Alia is the long-awaited first collection by one of Canada’s most talented young poets. His work has been widely published in journals and was selected by Lorna Crozier...
Introduction to the Introduction to the Introduction by André Alexis
For me, reading the Introduction was like being caught in a spring shower while waiting for the 41, and running into a library to get out of the rain...
Virtuosic poems tracking two intertwined themes: the breakdown of an obsessive love affair and the vicissitudes of middle age.
Invisible Dogs, Dempster’s fourteenth collection, is a complex but deeply coherent hymn to...
Jaguar Rain is a rare text: at once a book of stand-alone poems and a work of scholarship, with textual notes and bibliography. Written in the voice of Margaret Mee (naturalist, explorer, and painter of flowers in the Amazon...
A remarkable debut that expresses a humanism grounded in physiology.
At the heart of Karyotype is the Beauty of Loulan, a woman who lived four thousand years ago, her body preserved in the cool, dry sands of the...
Shortlisted for the 2007 Trillium Book Award for Poetry
Ecologically aware poems, hardwired to the intellect and the heart in equal measure.
Adam Dickinson’s poems, with firm intellectual bite and imaginative scope, reach...
In his fifth book of poetry, Douglas Burnet Smith tunes his eye and ear closely to the world, conscious of those points where the everyday blossoms into fierce magic. The title sequence is a deftly-rendered homage to the work of Georgia...
Winner of the 2014 Governor General’s Award for Poetry
A hymn to a beloved lake, a praise poem in forty-five parts,
a contemplation of landscape and memory
Lake of Two Mountains, Arleen Paré’s second poetry...
A prose/poetry sequence concerning the hanged man of London, Ontario, by the award-winning author of Birding, or Desire; Sanding Down This Rocking Chair on a Windy Night; Night Field; Apparatus and Another Gravity.
The writer of the letter in Kenneth Radu's title poem is reaching across an enormous silence: from a microchipped contemporary Canadian setting to the rest home on the Black Sea where his father is dying; and then even further, back to...
Tuning a fine ear to Lawrence’s letters from 1906 until his death in 1930, Barry Dempster’s poems uncover the man within the myth and give voice to Lawrence’s passionate mortality. Dempster’s act is one of imagination and homage, a kind...
Poems of great loss and deep questioning, wringing beauty out of potential despair.
In the opening poem of Lost Gospels, Lorri Neilsen Glenn writes of Mahalia Jackson and Blind Willie Johnson:
… they sang, oh yes...
A love affair chronicled – from obsession to heartbreak, foolhardiness to faith.
In Love Outlandish, Barry Dempster undoes all the clichés that have barnacled our love lives and, with the zest and courage typical of his...
Few artists (one thinks of Rilke and Hopkins) have presumed to evoke the spirit of embodied Nature. A. F. Moritz not only succeeds in thus animating a living world, but he deals with our human presence and assault on it with sympathy...
Near the centre of Marrying the Animals, Cornelia Hoogland’s new book of poetry, is the sequence “In the Meantime: Elizabeth Smart Poems” Hoogland’s exploration of Smart’s obsession with the poet George Barker is an apt heart...
Winner of the 1999 CAA Canadian Authors Association Award for Poetry and shortlisted for the 1999 Pat Lowther Award
Fantasies and meditations on friendship and on love: erotic, romantic, tormented, spurned, married, illicit,...
Shortlisted for the ReLit Award for Poetry.
A wide-ranging meditation by an accomplished poet on the uncontainable materiality of the world.
From yoghurt tubs to pop-up books to bobcats, from cement trucks to lost socks to...