In Memoirs of an Almost Expedition, Barbara Schott peels back the skin of language to reveal its musculature, its bone. She also peels back the skin of relations, the intimate rub of self against self, to find both great...
Brick Books Poetry
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Author:Schott, BarbaraSummary: - Author:Kazuk, A. R.Summary:
From Microphones there will be no returning to the standard detective story. This long poem/videotext ticks right along on its narrative marginalia alone, but its substance is an interplay of voices and its essence is high-...
- Author:Reibetanz, JohnSummary:
Reading John Reibetanz, one is struck with the way language, closely attended to, kept oiled and sharp, can give experience back its bite. And conversely, how experience can be the whetstone for language, chastening its presumptions and...
- Author:Reibetanz, JohnSummary:
Shortlisted for the 2001 ReLit Awards
John Reibetanz is good on grief: “You, mother,/ dying, left what was hard first:/ bones weeping into/ / your veins like flutes, teeth/ vanished on some hospital/ lunch tray” This conjunction...
- Author:Solie, KarenSummary:
Shortlisted for the 2006 Trillium Book Award for Poetry and longlisted for the 2006 ReLit Awards. A Globe 100 title in 2005.
Evade your eye. Try to see as others do
what is desired or refused. What went wrong.... - Author:Bruck, JulieSummary:
Winner of the 2012 Governor General’s Award for Poetry
Globe 100 Book for 2012
Shortlisted for Pat Lowther Memorial Award and CAA Award for Poetry 2013
Comic and sober by turns, these poems ask us
... - Author:Cook, MeiraSummary:
Shortlisted for the 2016 ReLit Award
Dazzling collection of masques from Manitoba Book of the Year– and Walrus Poetry Prize–winning author.
Monologue Dogs is a series of contemporary dramatic monologues. Every “...
- Author:Elmslie, SusanSummary:
A meditative and piercing collection that explores traumas
both ordinary and out of the ordinaryMuseum of Kindness, Montreal poet Susan Elmslie’s searching second collection of poetry, is a book that bravely...
- Author:Kleinzahler, AugustSummary:
This anthology cuts into the Canadian poetry scene on a fresh, oblique angle. Included are Robert Bringhurst, Margaret Avison, A.F. Moritz, Guy Birchard, Terry Humby, Alexander Hutchison and Brent MacKay.
- Author:Maggs, RandallSummary:
A new edition of a hockey saga, wrapping the game’s story
in the “intense, moody, contradictory” character of Terry Sawchuk,
one of its greatest goalies.Denied the leap and dash up the ice,
what goalies know... - Author:Humphreys, HelenSummary:
Alcuin Citation in 1991 for excellence in book design in Canada.
Nuns Looking Anxious, Listening to Radios is a work in the hazard of retrieval. What sticks in retrospect? Seldom what you would expect, not always the...
- Author:Price, StevenSummary:
Winner of the 2013 ReLit award for poetry
Omens, curses, the reading of entrails: means of grappling
with what is out of our hands, beyond our ken.Steven Price’s second collection is part of a long-lived struggle...
- Author:Bluger, MarianneSummary:
Marianne Bluger knows what it is to be at sea; oceans of sad and beautiful possibilities wash her poems. And she feels the warmth and fixity of anchorage in home. Tender by nature but tough at need, her language deftly negotiates a...
- Author:Enns, KarenSummary:
Sophomore collection of exquisite precision and musicality from a classically trained pianist
In Ordinary Hours, the follow-up to Karen Enns’ Gerald Lampert Award-nominated first collection, That Other Beauty,...
- Author:Wigmore, GillianSummary:
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...
- Author:Cayley, KateSummary:
From acclaimed fiction writer and playwright Kate Cayley—
poems that illuminate the deep strangeness of the familiarIn Other Houses, Kate Cayley’s second collection of poetry, objects are alive with the presence...
- Author:Hutchinson, ChrisSummary:
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...
- Author:Goyette, SueSummary:
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...
- Author:Crate, JoanSummary:
In powerful language that reflects the conflicts between the primitive and the sophisticated, Joan Crate redreams the passions which animated and tormented her famous predecessor. Part white, part Mohawk princess, Pauline Johnson /...
- Author:Dyck, E. F.Summary:
Ed Dyck finds that you cannot say "piss" on the radio in Saskatoon. There wasn't very much radio promotion of his book. That's a shame. Everybody should know about the cat Jack and the world Dyck compacts around him in 15 "sonnets."
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