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Canadian poetry

  • Rest on the Flight into Egypt
    Author:
    Moritz, A. F.
    Summary:

    Shortlisted for the 2000 Governor General's Award for Poetry

    From the outskirts of the fevered empire, and the embers that were its heart, Moritz sings us to our selves -- our failures, our cruelties, our stupidities, and beauty...
  • Red with living poems and art
    Author:
    Driedger, Diane
    Summary:

    In this compelling collection of poems and art, the colour of living is red with excitement, pain, sunsets, blood, and tropical flowers. Along the way, the poet  paints herself into the works of Frida Kahlo, Vincent Van Gogh, Claude...
  • Red curls
    Author:
    Hamon, Tracy
    Summary:
  • Reasons for Winter
    Author:
    Guttman, Naomi
    Summary:

    Winner of the 1992 A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry (QSPELL, now the Quebec Writers Federation) and shortlisted for the 1991 Pat Lowther Award

    Naomi Guttman's first collection of poems marks the appearance of a deeply emotional,...
  • Reading the Bible backwards
    Author:
    Priest, Robert
    Summary:

    Reverse engineering the word, meme splicing, morpheme replacement therapy, phonetic modifications: these are some of the techniques in play throughout Reading the Bible Backwards, the lyrical thought experiments that make up...
  • Rapport de stage en milieu humain
    Author:
    Laverdure, Bertrand
    Summary:

    J'ai souffert, c’est banal. Mon stage personnel chez les humains se déroule sans tragédie, pour le moment. Néanmoins, la douleur sans plaie existe, la douleur des craquements post-relationnels existe. En tant que stagiaire perpétuel...
  • Radio weather
    Author:
    Wingate, Shoshanna
    Summary:

    Radio Weather confronts the changeableness of life—how existence can switch gears with the speed of announced-for snow that turns abruptly to rain. Shoshanna Wingate’s first book runs the gauntlet of her various roles—mother, wife,...
  • Quick: Aphorisms
    Author:
    Murray, George
    Summary:

    The highly anticipated follow-up to the wildly popular Glimpse

    Quick is George Murray’s second collection of aphorisms — a form that straddles the lines between poetry, philosophy, humour, and prose. He...
  • Pure product
    Author:
    Guriel, Jason
    Summary:

    In his second book of poems, Jason Guriel cuts a dazzling figurewhip-smart, charismatic, with a mischievousness always eager to play for more serious stakes. Guriels way of seeing the world is low-key and sly: he tries to show us the...
  • Psychic geographies and other topics
    Author:
    Betts, Gregory
    Summary:

    Psychic Geographies is a tour de force, an ambitious exploration of the age, its physical and emotional permutations, its tragic contradictions, its joyful transformations. Gregory Betts takes a construct from the Situationists of the...
  • Practical anxiety
    Author:
    Greco, Heidi
    Summary:

    These poems dwell in the hearth of domesticity, but they look beyond the confines of the home with clear eyes. Boldly unafraid, they confront the realities of climate change, the desecration of habitat, some quiet truths about aging and...
  • Poems for a new world
    Author:
    Fife, Connie
    Summary:

    Connie Fife is one of Canada’s warrior poets. Poems for a New World, her third book of poems, refuses to take prisoners. She writes of Oka and Gustafson Lake, of the police shooting of a Native mother and child, as well as the NATO...
  • Penny dreadful
    Author:
    Stewart, Shannon
    Summary:

    Penny Dreadfuls were popular, cheaply produced 19th century magazines filled with brutal and sensationalist tales. In her uncompromising second collection of poetry, Vancouver poet Shannon Stewart revisits their grisly spirit through a...
  • outskirts
    Author:
    Goyette, Sue
    Summary:

    Winner of the 2012 Pat Lowther Memorial Award

    Winner of the 2012 Atlantic Poetry Prize

    A powerful diptych juxtaposing our rootedness in family love with a report from the precipice of planetary disintegration.

    Sue...
  • Our gleaming bones unrobed
    Author:
    Loveys, Grant
    Summary:

    A first collection of poems from the winner of the Cuffer Prize for short fiction. Our Gleaming Bones Unrobed is a haunting debut, a poetry collection thematically focused on discovering the structure (the figurative bones)...
  • Otolith
    Author:
    Nilsen, Emily
    Summary:

    Otolith — the ear stone — is a series of bones that help us to orient ourselves in space. In Otolith, Emily Nilsen attempts a similar feat in poetry: to turn the reader's attention to their relationship to the world, revealing an...
  • Other People's Lives The History of a London Lot
    Author:
    Hutchinson, Chris
    Summary:

    Longlisted for the 2010 ReLit Award

    Exciting music, delicious ironies, radiant self-awareness.

    With imagination, wit and scrupulous candour, Chris Hutchinson’s poems negotiate and renegotiate the shifting no-man’s-land...
  • Other Houses
    Author:
    Cayley, Kate
    Summary:

    From acclaimed fiction writer and playwright Kate Cayley—
    poems that illuminate the deep strangeness of the familiar

    In Other Houses, Kate Cayley’s second collection of poetry, objects are alive with the presence...
  • Ossuaires
    Author:
    Brand, Dionne
    Summary:

    Le travail de Dionne Brand a toujours été « un creuset de lyrisme incantatoire et de cinglante critique sociale » (Barbara Carey). En effet, couvrant à la fois l’intime et le collectif, Ossuaires opère un désancrage des mots  : délestés...
  • Orient
    Author:
    Wigmore, Gillian
    Summary:

    A polyphonic hymn to Northern British Columbia by one of its boldest, most exciting writers.

    Orient is the third collection from one of Western Canada’s most accomplished poets. Composed mainly of three long poems—an...

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