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Brick Books Poetry

  • Author:
    Graham, Neile
    Summary:

    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, John
    Summary:

    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.
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    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, Marianne
    Summary:

    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, Kim
    Summary:

    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:
    Schellenberg, Angeline
    Summary:

    Winner of the Lansdowne Prize for Poetry, the Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for best first book and the John Hirsch Award for Most Promising Manitoba Writer. Shortlisted for the ReLit Award for Poetry.

    Linked poems that uncover the...

  • Author:
    Thibaudeau, Colleen
    Summary:

    A sequence of elegiac poems by the least recognized major poet in Canada, celebrating place all the way to glory.

  • Author:
    Thibaudeau, Colleen
    Summary:

    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, Ross
    Summary:

    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, Naomi
    Summary:

    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, Barry
    Summary:

    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, Hilary
    Summary:

    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, Julie
    Summary:

    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, David
    Summary:

    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, Joanna
    Summary:

    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:
    Paré, Arleen
    Summary:

    Winner of the Goldie Award for poetry

    A long poem memorializing the art and lives
    of sculptors Frances Loring and Florence Wyle

    Arleen Paré, in her first book-length poem after her Governor General Literary Award–...

  • Author:
    McOrmond, Steve
    Summary:

    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:
    Steffler, John
    Summary:

    Deluxe redesign of a seminal book by Canada’s former Parliamentary Poet Laureate.
    Includes new material.

    On the occasion of the press’s 40th anniversary, Brick Books is proud to present the second of six new editions of...

  • Author:
    MacKay, Brent
    Summary:

    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, Michael
    Summary:

    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...

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