Shortlisted for the Raymond Souster Award and the CAA Award for Poetry 2013
Poems with an urgent desire to discover a way to be in right relation
to other creatures and to the earth itself.
There are many journeys...
Brick Books Poetry
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Author:McGiffin, EmilySummary: - Author:Domanski, DonSummary:
Winner of the J.M. Abraham Poetry Award at the East Coast Literary Awards and
Finalist for the 2013 Governor General’s Award for PoetryFrom a master poet, meditative lines running like veins through the dark grace of...
- Author:Hamilton, J. A.Summary:
Shortlisted for the 1991 Pat Lowther Award
In J.A. Hamilton’s poems blood is red, black hearts are black. There is no flinching from things as bad as they can be, especially but not only for women. And yet, this passionate...
- Author:Sinclair, SueSummary:
Shortlisted for 2009 Pat Lowther Memorial Award
and the Atlantic Poetry PrizeThe essence, the quintessence, of lyric poetry.
Sue Sinclair is the direct inheritor of the great early 20th Century German poet, Rilke:...
- Author:Barnes, MikeSummary:
Shortlisted for the 1997 Gerald Lampert Award
The poems in Calm Jazz Sea reveal a world forever becoming and disappearing, watched over and handled gently by the compassionate intelligence of Mike Barnes. In the everyday...
- Author:Smart, CarolynSummary:
Second place winner in the 3rd Annual Fred Cogswell Award for Excellence in Poetry (2016)
Remember Bonnie & Clyde?
A complex, dramatic rendering of a familiar story made new.
Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow are...
- Author:Dickinson, AdamSummary:
Shortlisted for the 2003 Henry Kreisel Award for Best First Book (Writers Guild of Alberta Award)
Without you,
I have taken to drawing maps
on the backs of photographs.
On the coast in a raincoat
your... - Author:Bryden, Diana FitzgeraldSummary:
The early car’s mine.
I leave before the day
puts hardware on;
ride east all the way.I leave before the day
abandons slow calm.
Ride east all the way,
and now a stormabandons...
- Author:Wynand, DerkSummary:
These flies on a white table burst
into shafts of light and touch down
again, sun-stricken,
the oil of their bodies breaking
light into all its parts.Not yet song, their buzzing proves
less... - Author:Glenn, Lorri NeilsenSummary:
Longlisted for the 2008 ReLit Awards
Humane ethnographer, passionate memoirist, lyricist of the acute moment, Lorri Neilsen Glenn explores memory as legacy.
Lorri Neilsen Glenn’s poems welcome the reader into a place where...
- Author:Avison, MargaretSummary:
Winner of the 2003 Griffin Poetry Prize and of the 2003 CAA Jack Chalmers Poetry Award and Globe 100 book for 2003
“…Margaret Avison is a national treasure. For many decades she has forged a way to write, against the grain, some...
- Author:Cadsby, HeatherSummary:
Poems about the unexpected and often wry coincidences language lends to life.
In Could be, each poem is a moment of engaged and isolated attention, prodding language, relationships, the mundane aspects of daily life,...
- Author:MacIsaac, DanSummary:
A pitch-perfect debut and a call to act in the service of Earth
through radiant attentionHumankind, at present, has breached floodgates that have only been breached before in ancient stories of angry gods, or so far back...
- Author:Leifso, BrendaSummary:
Shortlisted for the 2009 Lampman-Scott Award (for the best book of poetry in the National Capital Region)
Vivid accessible poems revealing the mythic proportions of a seemingly simple, rural childhood and the passions that course...
- Author:Wynand, DerkSummary:
Dead Man’s Float details that sad emblem of Western alienation, the tourist couple in their rented tropical Eden. Here life is temporary and not at all cheap. The wildlife is spectacular, the culture incomprehensible, and the...
- Author:Curnoe, GregSummary:
Before his tragic death in 1992, Greg Curnoe had submitted to Brick Books a manuscript based on extraordinarily detailed research into the history of 38 Weston, his address in London, Ontario. The result is a journal/collage that traces...
- Author:Dempster, BarrySummary:
Shortlisted for the 2017 Raymond Souster Award
A beloved poet explores why life is so rich, even at the worst of times.
Disturbing the Buddha, Barry Dempster’s fifteenth collection, is disarmingly conversational...
- Author:Donlan, JohnSummary:
A sequence of fifty dated poems, four quatrains each; lyrical arguments; quick thinking amid the rational absurdity of everyday machinery; intuitive explorations of unknown energies; a diary of the unconscious.
- Author:Almon, BertSummary:
Winner of the 1995 Writers Guild of Alberta Award for Poetry
Bert Almon’s poems are centred in local, apparently unremarkable moments which are addressed with such a fine, ironic eye that they suddenly yield their innate comedy,...
- Author:Conn, JanSummary:
Mature poems with their finger on the pulse of the dark side of the present.
Reading Edge Effects, Jan Conn’s masterful eighth collection, is a little like looking at Edward Burtynsky’s photographs of real industrial...
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