A startlingly original work about the act of writing itself from Griffin Poetry Prize--winner Dionne Brand. An essential observer of our time and one of the most accomplished poets writing today, Dionne Brand returns with a work that...
Canadian poetry
- Author:Brand, DionneSummary:
- Author:Dwyer, DeirdreSummary:
A spellbinding evocation of the power of memory and the spirit of place
Set in the small farming community of Blomidon on Nova Scotia’s Bay of Fundy, The Blomidon Logs starts with tales of Glooscap and a...
- Author:Leckie, RossSummary:
No postmodern gimmickry, no tricks except all the old ones that every good poet must learn: these lucid, evocative poems put the reader so clearly in the picture that you taste the blackberries of your childhood, shiver at the chill of...
- Author:Thibaudeau, ColleenSummary:
Granddaughters, asters, Medea cakes, para pom tandle, Mrs. Roker raking, Caraquet, angelic recurrence, Neruda, zupzupzup, the high bush cranberries, the Somme, a waterfall in Iceland that cries by the thousandsful, the Strawberry Shaman...
- Author:Tolmie, SarahSummary:
Hate to tell you, but you're going to die. / Quite soon. Me, too. / Shuck off the wisdom while it's warm. / Death does no harm / To wisdom. Sarah Tolmie's second collection of poems is a traditional ars moriendi, a how-to book on the...
- Author:Meyer, BruceSummary:
Time touches everything, and in doing so changes everything. The Arrow of Time examines the challenges, transformations and surprises wrought by change, and celebrates the ways we attempt to measure our lives against this invisible...
- Author:Sze, GillianSummary:
Taking off from the Promethean myth of human creation, Gillian Sze’s second poetry collection explores the “anatomy of clay” and the individual as a sentient mystery. At times reflective, instructional, playful, or strange, the first...
- Author:DeRango-Adem, AdebeSummary:
Titled after the Latin term for “unknown land”—a cartographical expression referring to regions that have not yet been mapped or documented—Terra Incognita is a collection of poems that creatively explores various racial...
- Author:Thibaudeau, ColleenSummary:
A sequence of elegiac poems by the least recognized major poet in Canada, celebrating place all the way to glory.
- Author:Schellenberg, AngelineSummary:
Winner of the Lansdowne Prize for Poetry, the Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for best first book and the John Hirsch Award for Most Promising Manitoba Writer. Shortlisted for the ReLit Award for Poetry.
Linked poems that uncover the...
- Author:Maltman, KimSummary:
This extraordinary sequence of prose and free verse poems explores the postures, styles, and rhetorics of our culture and its history -- not with the predictable aim of criticism and rejection, or the fashionable aim of recombinant word...
- Author:Richardson, PeterSummary:
Sympathy for the Couriers is a collection of messages from the border region of our lives—that vast allegorized territory of cheap self-deceptions and illusions. By turns comical and grim, these new poems feature Peter Richardson at his...
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Surrey Stories connect is a time-capsule: a snapshot of Surrey in the fall of 2016. The stories here were written and created on three separate afternoons at three different locations: Cloverdale, Strawberry Hill, and Historic Stewart...
- Author:LaSorda, AllisonSummary:
Allison LaSorda's Stray shows the formation of a considerable poetic talent. These poems are sun-bleached, at once gritty, raw, and playful. LaSorda can conjure childhood memories of beaches and ice cream, ponder the elemental force of...
- Author:Cohen, LeonardSummary:
This collection brings together, for the first time in one volume, a generous selection of Leonard Cohen's song lyrics and poetry, revealing the range and depth of Cohen's work.
- Author:Matuk, NylaSummary:
In Stranger, Nyla Matuk’s provocative, unabashedly sensual voice leads us to revelations about how our lives are increasingly disembodied by social media’s flattened, outward identity markers. In place of this contested sense of self,...
- Author:Graham, NeileSummary:
Shortlisted for the 1994 Pat Lowther Award
“I believe in the common magic/ of forests and household gods” writes Neile Graham in “Spells for Clear Vision,” the title poem of this volume. And it is a common magic which she works...
- Author:Moritz, A. F.Summary:
A. F. Moritz’s poems integrate nature and enduring myth with our inner life so movingly, so convincingly, that they almost seem to be our own thoughts. His direct and intimate tone, and the power, calm, and clarity of his expression,...
- Author:Shaw, KevinSummary:
Stately and majestic, yet scuffed with wear and disillusion, the poems of Smaller Hours mount the sky like columns and fora of some archaic ruin. Through these ancient halls, Kevin Shaw tracks Eros, clearing away the rubble and...
- Author:Wheeler, SueSummary:
Shortlisted for the 2001 Pat Lowther Award and the 2001 Dorothy Livesay Award for Poetry (BC Book Prizes)
Hear the rustle all down the block as people unwrap the box of the Fifties. Life will be a clock, a pet, it will wag its...