À la surface agitée des eaux, un voilier navigue sur une mer plutôt calme. Contradiction ? Tout dépend du sens que l’ on accorde à « agité ». L’ agitation dont il est question dans les suites qui ouvrent et ferment le recueil témoigne...
Canadian poetry
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Author:Marquis, AndréSummary: - Author:Pleau, MichelSummary:
La lenteur du monde est un livre de l’aube. Une autre journée se lève sur le monde et voilà que le regard, toujours au début de chaque chose, se fait attentif à tout ce qui commence. Ce recueil est une plongée dans l’enfance, les...
- Author:Dickinson, AdamSummary:
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...
- Author:Hall, PhilSummary:
WINNER OF THE 75th GOVERNOR GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARD FOR POETRYWINNER OF THE 25th TRILLIUM BOOK PRIZEWINNER OF AN ALCUIN AWARD FOR DESIGNSHORTLISTED FOR THE GRIFFIN POETRY PRIZEThese are poems of critical thought that have been...
- Author:Trainor, KimSummary:
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...
- Author:Hutchinson, ChrisSummary:
Jonas in Frames is [choose one]: A) a series of loosely connected narrative fragments written in poetic prose; B) a maze of postcard stories bursting with literary in-jokes; C) a delicate sequence of prose poems interspersed with...
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Author:Sherman, KennethSummary:A poetic masterclass from a writer at the height of his craft Kenneth Sherman's work has always displayed a vibrant lyricism, so it's no surprise that his powerful new collection contains a number of poems with musical motifs. In such...
- Author:Lefrançois, Alexis, St-Pierre, DenisSummary:
Le « toujours merveilleux poète Alexis Lefrançois », comme le présentait récemment Hugues Corriveau dans Le Devoir, nous lance une invitation avec son recueil : Je vous rejoindrai au teminus vide. Alexis Lefrançois décrit l’éphémère...
- Author:Dempster, BarrySummary:
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...
- Author:Bread, Pain NotSummary:
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...
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Author:Whiteman, BruceSummary:Intimate Letters comprises the seventh book of an ongoing long poem in prose called The Invisible World Is in Decline. Its title borrows from a string quartet by Leoš Jánaček, a profoundly emotional piece written late...
- Author:Solway, DavidSummary:
Installations, David Solway’s 14th book of poetry, is haunted with transformation, Few poets possess as commanding a gift for metaphor or can use it to masterfully conjure the ever-changing landscape of the natural world. Like the jerry...
- Author:Hartog, DianaSummary:
“… 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...
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Author:D'Agostino, SaroSummary:Immigrant Songs is a posthumous collection of the works of Saro (Rosario) D’Agostino. It includes poems, fiction works that may be chapters of an unfinished novel, and letters. These fragments from a seminal Italo-Canadian writer whose...
- Author:Shaffran, RonSummary:
Speaking a language we understand, Rona Shaffran's poems tell the story of remarkable things that can happen in a broken relationship. These poems inhabit the sharp edges and rich depths of a union too long untended. Ignite begins...
- Author:Elmslie, SusanSummary:
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...
- Author:Gould, NoraSummary:
Winner of the 2013 Robert Kroetsch Edmonton Book Prize
and the Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry (Writers Guild of Alberta)Shortlisted for Gerald Lampert Memorial Award
and a finalist for the High Plains Book... - Author:Howe, KenSummary:
Winner of the 2001 Anne Szumigalski Award for Poetry and shortlisted for the 2001 Regina Book Award (Saskatchewan Book Awards). Shortlisted for the 2002 Gerald Lampert Award and longlisted for the 2002 ReLit Awards.
from “Max’s...
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Author:Krause, JudithSummary: -
Author:Capilongo, DomenicoSummary:Hold the Note is a wide-ranging collection unified by a jazzy, syncopated writing style — dynamic, sometimes experimental, often playful, yet always passionately engaged, sensual and visceral. Themes include the author''s Italo-Canadian...
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