A. F. Moritz’s poems integrate nature and enduring myth with our inner life so movingly, so convincingly, that they almost seem to be our own thoughts. His direct and intimate tone, and the power, calm, and clarity of his expression,...
Brick Books Poetry
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Author:Moritz, A. F.Summary: - Author:Reaney, JamesSummary:
A Globe 100 book for 2005 and longlisted for the 2005 ReLit Awards
From James Reaney, three-times Governor General’s Award winner, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, member of the Order of Canada, comes the first new...
- Author:Graham, NeileSummary:
Shortlisted for the 1994 Pat Lowther Award
“I believe in the common magic/ of forests and household gods” writes Neile Graham in “Spells for Clear Vision,” the title poem of this volume. And it is a common magic which she works...
- Author:Donlan, JohnSummary:
An exploration of the nexus between human consciousness and the natural world.
John Donlan’s lyric work seeks the connection between lives – not just the life of a coyote and the life of a man, or the peaceful cacophony of a pond...
- Author:Hamilton, J. A.Summary:
J.A. Hamilton distinguished herself with Body Rain (1991) a tough, passionate lyrical book written out of a woman's anger and a woman’s love. Steam-Cleaning Love, Hamilton’s second book of poetry, is "ginger root tough...
- Author:Bluger, MarianneSummary:
Winner of the 1993 Archibald Lampman Award and shortlisted for the 1992 Pat Lowther Award
Summer Grass follows Marianne Bluger's previous Brick books, On Nights Like This (1984) and Gathering Wild (1988...
- Author:Maltman, KimSummary:
This extraordinary sequence of prose and free verse poems explores the postures, styles, and rhetorics of our culture and its history -- not with the predictable aim of criticism and rejection, or the fashionable aim of recombinant word...
- Author:Thibaudeau, ColleenSummary:
A sequence of elegiac poems by the least recognized major poet in Canada, celebrating place all the way to glory.
- Author:Thibaudeau, ColleenSummary:
Granddaughters, asters, Medea cakes, para pom tandle, Mrs. Roker raking, Caraquet, angelic recurrence, Neruda, zupzupzup, the high bush cranberries, the Somme, a waterfall in Iceland that cries by the thousandsful, the Strawberry Shaman...
- Author:Leckie, RossSummary:
No postmodern gimmickry, no tricks except all the old ones that every good poet must learn: these lucid, evocative poems put the reader so clearly in the picture that you taste the blackberries of your childhood, shiver at the chill of...
- Author:Guttman, NaomiSummary:
Under the sugar maples of Montreal, family life is given mythic dimensions
in this sweeping novella-in-verse.If Dionysus and Ariadne lived in Montreal in the late twentieth century, would he serve veal stuffed with apples...
- Author:Dempster, BarrySummary:
The Burning Alphabet confirms and extends Barry Dempster’s reputation as one of Canada’s most respected poets. Underpinning these poems, as in his previous work, there lies an unswerving dedication to emotional and spiritual honesty,...
- Author:Clark, HilarySummary:
Shortlisted for the 2003 Anne Szumigalski Award for Poetry and for the 2003 City of Saskatoon Book Award (Saskatchewan Book Awards)
A poem is a shelter,
provisional — a little wobbly —a house whose rooms have no...
- Author:Bruck, JulieSummary:
With crisp, elegant language, sharp wit and resonant images, Julie Bruck’s new book gentles the largesse of life out of its many smallnesses. The way a straw buoys up in a can of pop, or a friend’s dress holds her shape, even on its...
- Author:Waltner-Toews, DavidSummary:
On the day that David Waltner-Toews’ young daughter Rebecca gave “Mr. Fluff, that venerable stuffed dog” to her older brother, the poet learned a lesson in community building – to get what you really want you must give it away and then...
- Author:Lilley, JoannaSummary:
A sardonic, stinging wake-up call to the complexities of modern existence
The Fleece Era is Yukon-based, UK-born Joanna Lilley’s first book of poems: a wry and eloquent testament to the intricacies of our various relationships....
- Author:McOrmond, SteveSummary:
Poems that occupy the difficult territory of contemporary crisis with great candour and trenchant wit.
Steve McOrmond’s unflinching take on contemporary life, with its saturnine candour and ironic focus, may remind readers of the...
- Author:MacKay, BrentSummary:
A sure-tongued linguistic menagerie.
Brent’s poems also appear in News and Weather: Seven Canadian Poets edited by August Kleinzahler – This anthology cuts into the Canadian poetry scene on a fresh, oblique angle....
- Author:Kenyon, MichaelSummary:
Shortlisted for the 2010 ReLit Award
Poems of disturbing beauty, examining personal and collective loss.
This is Michael Kenyon’s third full-length collection of poems. His poetry and fiction have always been alert to the...
- Author:Greenwood, CatherineSummary:
Nominated for the 2014 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize (BC Book Prizes); finalist for the 2014 City of Victoria Butler Book Prize
Atmospherically light and stylistically expansive – poems that regard our givens as a gift.
Don...
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