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Brick Books Poetry

  • Everything, Now
    Author:
    Moore, Jessica
    Summary:

    Poems about being stranded in a truth that shows no mercy, speaking from the last place you’d ever choose to go.

    Part lyric, part memoir, Everything, now, Jessica Moore’s heart-rending debut, describes an untimely death...
  • Eyes Like Pigeons
    Author:
    Rees, Roberta
    Summary:

    Co-winner of the 1992 Gerald Lampert Award. Winner of the 1992 Writers Guild of Alberta Award for Poetry

    Eyes Like Pigeons, Roberta Rees' long poem, comes back, always, to this: "… Thi' in Vietnamese means poetry." Thi,...
  • Foreign Homes
    Author:
    Crate, Joan
    Summary:

    Shortlisted for the 2002 Pat Lowther Award

    Foreign Homes, Joan Crate’s second book of poems, explores domesticity and dislocation, where what was thought to be home becomes alien, and where the alien is, piece by piece,...
  • Frayed Opus for Strings & Wind Instruments
    Author:
    Gernes, Ulrikka S., Friesen, Patrick, Brask, Per
    Summary:

    Finalist for the 2016 Griffin Poetry Prize

    The English translation of new work from a celebrated Danish poet.

    Frayed Opus for Strings & Wind Instruments is a collection of poems that zooms in and out of places...
  • From the Medley
    Author:
    Dragisic, Peggy
    Summary:

    A sequence exploring the bittersweet corners of motherhood.
  • Gathering wild
    Author:
    Bluger, Marianne
    Summary:

    Meditative, meticulously-crafted poems that nonetheless take seriously the idea that all poetry is a form of praise, and that "the habit of sadness just isn’t enough/ … / because it isn't joy." Gathering Wild is Marianne Bluger...
  • Ghost Country
    Author:
    Noyes, Steve
    Summary:

    “In a sober and carefully understated voice I say: this is a damn good poet.” Al Purdy on Backing into Heaven 

    Ghost Country enters the difficult electric air between cultures and lovers, alive to the fierce...
  • Girlwood
    Author:
    Still, Jennifer
    Summary:

    Shortlisted for the 2012 Aqua Lansdowne Prize for Poetry
    Winner of the 2012 John Hirsch Award for Most Promising Manitoba Writer

    A linguistically inventive exaltation, a wild ride down into the privacies, the here-and-...
  • God's Geography
    Author:
    Humphreys, Helen
    Summary:

    Don Gutteridge approaches his home town of Point Edward, Ontario, with an array of listening and recording devices, mixing poetry, documentary newspaper collage, interviews and photography. A milestone in the documentary poem.

    “A...
  • Going Around with Bachelors
    Author:
    Walsh, Agnes
    Summary:

    Shortlisted for the 2008 Pat Lowther Award and the 2009 Heritage and History Book Award [Writers Alliance of Newfoundland and Labrador], nominated for LGBT Poetry (2008 Lambda Literary Awards) and longlisted for the 2008 ReLit Awards...
  • Grief Notes & Animal Dreams
    Author:
    Munro, Jane
    Summary:

    Jane Munro’s poems are explorations of the mysteries of inner experience. What are the truths of emotion? What can the body know? In Grief Notes & Animal Dreams, Munro’s third collection, we enter the condition Gaston...
  • Habitat
    Author:
    Wheeler, Sue
    Summary:

    In her third collection of poems, Sue Wheeler writes of the ephemeral with an eye trained on the eternal questions. “Who are you?” she asks at the outset of her search for fresh and more telling names for the human in the lush natural...
  • Hard light
    Author:
    Crummey, Michael, Moore, Lisa
    Summary:

    On the occasion of the press’s 40th anniversary, Brick Books is proud to present the fifth of six new editions of classic books from our back catalogue. This edition of Hard Light features a new Introduction by Lisa Moore, a...
  • Heaven's Thieves
    Author:
    Sinclair, Sue
    Summary:

    Heaven's Thieves is a collection engaged with the big questions -- What are bodies for? What does it mean to be alive? What is beauty and why does it have such power over us? What is the point of art? -- and the urgent ones --...
  • Hired Hands
    Author:
    Lee, John B.
    Summary:

    Shortlisted for the 1987 Milton Acorn Memorial People’s Poetry Prize

    The hired hand of these poems was a stupid man. Nowadays he would be known as one of the employable retarded. Tom was lucky enough to find work and a home with...
  • Hooked
    Author:
    Smart, Carolyn
    Summary:

    Longlisted for the 2010 ReLit Award

    Hooked is a stunning new collection of seven poems about seven famous or infamous women: Myra Hindley, Unity Mitford, Zelda Fitzgerald, Dora Carrington, Carson McCullers, Jane Bowles,...
  • House Dreams
    Author:
    Young, Deanna
    Summary:

    Finalist for the 2015 Trillium Book Award for Poetry, the Archibald
    Lampman Award, City of Ottawa Book Awards and the ReLit Award

    A book of dark corners and shifting locations, full of switches that light up
    the...
  • Household Hints for the End of Time
    Author:
    Howe, Ken
    Summary:

    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...
  • Hymn
    Author:
    Barton, John
    Summary:

    Nominated for Gay Poetry (2009 Lambda Literary Awards)

    A journey in search of love through the contemporary homoerotic male body.

    Improvising on a variety of poetic forms and traversing disparate landscapes – from Belfast...
  • I see my love more clearly from a distance
    Author:
    Gould, Nora
    Summary:

    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...

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