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    Author:
    Cadeau, Charmaine
    Summary:

    Disintegration, gaps in the historical record, and unaccounted-for absences hold these magically makeshift lyric poems together.

    Provisional, roaming, obsessed with remnants and deferrals, the poems in Charmaine Cadeau’s second...
  • Poems Only a Dog Could Love
    Author:
    Lee, John B.
    Summary:

    John B. Lee’s first collection of poetry. Illustrated by Judith Klein Stenn. In 2005, John B. Lee was inducted as Poet Laureate of Brantford in perpetuity and in 2011 he was appointed Poet Laureate of Norfolk County.
  • Rack of Lamb
    Author:
    Kenyon, Michael
    Summary:

    Michael Kenyon's Rack of Lamb is a compelling study in voice. Organized loosely around various foods, the book brings together the voices of several women and a young girl, all from the same community but representing various...
  • Reasons for Winter
    Author:
    Guttman, Naomi
    Summary:

    Winner of the 1992 A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry (QSPELL, now the Quebec Writers Federation) and shortlisted for the 1991 Pat Lowther Award

    Naomi Guttman's first collection of poems marks the appearance of a deeply emotional,...
  • Rediscovered Sheep
    Author:
    Lee, John B.
    Summary:

    Rediscovered Sheep takes its origin generations ago when an ancestor of John B. Lee began to raise Lincoln sheep in Ontario. John B. may never take up his inheritance as Master of the Flock, but his understanding of sheep...
  • Rest on the Flight into Egypt
    Author:
    Moritz, A. F.
    Summary:

    Shortlisted for the 2000 Governor General's Award for Poetry

    From the outskirts of the fevered empire, and the embers that were its heart, Moritz sings us to our selves -- our failures, our cruelties, our stupidities, and beauty...
  • Riffs
    Author:
    Lee, Dennis
    Summary:

    Deluxe redesign of an aching solo situated at the mid-point of a long, melodious career.

    On the occasion of the press’s 40th anniversary, Brick Books is proud to present the third of six new editions of classic books from our...
  • Roaming Charges
    Author:
    Di Nardo, Antony
    Summary:

    A turbulent, celebratory flight from an accomplished witness and journeyman.

    Antony Di Nardo’s third collection of poems occupies the air between Canada and Lebanon, viewer and painting, victim and triggerman, reader and page....
  • Robinson's Crossing
    Author:
    Zwicky, Jan
    Summary:

    Winner of the 2005 Dorothy Livesay Award for Poetry (BC Book Prizes).  Shortlisted for the 2004 Governor General’s Award for Poetry [Wisdom & Metaphor by Jan Zwicky was also shortlisted in the non-fiction category of the...
  • Romanian Suite
    Author:
    Radu, Kenneth
    Summary:

    In linked poems of great individual power, Kenneth Radu addresses the matter of Romania, the country of his ancestors, summoning figures from myth, distant and recent history, and the arts. The cast of characters includes Dracula,...
  • Secrets of Weather and Hope
    Author:
    Sinclair, Sue
    Summary:

    Shortlisted for the 2002 Gerald Lampert Award

    Cumulus

    These are the carriers.
    Their large, mild bodies make us think
    of domesticity, of milk. Mammalian
    they hold the rain in their bellies, a generous...
  • Selah
    Author:
    Gould, Nora
    Summary:

    Finalist for the 2017 Governor General’s Award for Poetry and
    Shortlisted for the 2017 Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry (Writers Guild of Alberta Award)

    A long poem that limns the incremental mourning of living with...
  • Sharawadji
    Author:
    Henderson, Brian
    Summary:

    Nominated for the CAA Award for Poetry [Canadian Authors Association]

    A renowned poet lets language ride its own musically-malleable syntax into unfamiliar regions of consciousness. 

    Brian Henderson has established himself...
  • Short Haul Engine
    Author:
    Solie, Karen
    Summary:

    Winner of the 2002 Dorothy Livesay Award for Poetry (BC Book Prizes), shortlisted for the 2002 Griffin Poetry Prize, the 2002 Gerald Lampert Award for first book and longlisted for the 2002 ReLit Awards.

    Karen Solie takes risks...
  • Short talks
    Author:
    Carson, Anne
    Summary:

    Deluxe redesign of the two-time Griffin Award winner’s first poetry collection. Includes new material.

    On the occasion of the press’s 40th anniversary, Brick Books is proud to present the first of six new editions of classic...
  • Slovenly Love
    Author:
    Cook, Méira
    Summary:

    Longlisted for the 2004 ReLit Awards

    Slovenly Love is Méira Cook’s third book of poetry. A Fine Grammar of Bones and Toward a Catalogue of Falling, both collections of lyrics, are now joined by a fascinating...
  • Slow-Moving Target
    Author:
    Wheeler, Sue
    Summary:

    Shortlisted for the 2001 Pat Lowther Award and the 2001 Dorothy Livesay Award for Poetry (BC Book Prizes)

    Hear the rustle all down the block as people unwrap the box of the Fifties. Life will be a clock, a pet, it will wag its...
  • Song of Fear
    Author:
    Moritz, A. F.
    Summary:

    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,...
  • Songs for Relinquishing the Earth
    Author:
    Zwicky, Jan
    Summary:

    Winner of the 1999 Governor General’s Award for Poetry and shortlisted for the 1999 Pat Lowther Award and the 1999 Dorothy Livesay Award for Poetry (BC Book Prize)

    Songs for Relinquishing the Earth contains many poems of...
  • Souwesto Home
    Author:
    Reaney, James
    Summary:

    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...

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