This collection brings together Allan Cooper's best poems over the last forty years. He weaves visions of nature with insight into the workings of the human heart. Read them individually or read them as a single long, flowing and...
Canadian poetry
- Author:Cooper, AllanSummary:
- Author:Cook, MéiraSummary:
Shortlisted for the 1997 Pat Lowther Award and for the 1997 McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award
Toward a Catalogue of Falling, Méira Cook’s second full-length book, proves that the fall into language can be both...
- Author:Phillips, ElizabethSummary:
Winner, Lesbian Poetry at the 2008 GCLS Literary Awards (Golden Crown Literary Awards) and nominated for LGBT Poetry at the Lambda Literary Awards
Shortlisted for the 2007 Anne Szumigalsi Award for Poetry and the 2007 Saskatoon...
- Author:Lee, John B.Summary:
A long poem dramatizing the clash in visions of the land which occurs when a white settler builds on a sacred Iroquois site.
- Author:Holbrook, Susan L.Summary:
In 1934, Gertrude Stein asked 'What is poetry and if you know what poetry is what is prose.' Throaty Wipes answers this question and many more! How does broadband work? Does 'chuffed' mean pleased or displeased? What if the generations...
- Author:Donawa, WendySummary:
An elegiac and incisive debut that blends poems of social justice
with poems of ordinary lifeIn her first collection, Thin Air of the Knowable, the physical landscapes of Wendy Donawa’s life—West Coast, Caribbean...
- Author:Bruck, JulieSummary:
Winner of the 1994 A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry (QSPELL, now the Quebec Writers' Federation)
In The Woman Downstairs, eloquence joins intimately with an attentive and hungry eye. Julie Bruck explores the accidents and...
- Author:Lane, M. TravisSummary:
Winner, New Brunswick Book Award for PoetryA Quill & Quire Best Book of the Year. Like the novella in fiction, the long poem is an oft-neglected form. Too long for publication in most literary journals and anthologies, too short to...
- Author:Cookshaw, MarleneSummary:
Shortlisted for the 1990 Dorothy Livesay Award for Poetry (BC Book Prizes)
Marlene Cookshaw is a Cheshire cat of a poet whose naturally realized details illuminate a shifting wholeness on the "singing edge" between dream and...
- Author:Green, Albena BelovedSummary:
The Way We Hold On is Abena Beloved Green's debut book of poetry. Her poems address cultural, social, and environmental issues, relationships, and reflect on everyday life as a small-town raised, semi-nomadic, first-generation...
- Author:Smart, CarolynSummary:
The Way to Come Home is Carolyn Smart's fourth book of poems. It is a collection that ranges from celebrating the rural landscape north of Kingston, Ontario to re-creating the painful last phase of her friend Bronwen Wallace's...
- Author:Heighton, StevenSummary:
A collection of laments and celebrations that reflect on our struggle to believe in the future of a world that continues to disappoint us. The poet challenges the boundaries of sleep and even death in these meditations on what lies just...
- Author:Burgham, IanSummary:
This is a collection inspired by Coleridge’s doctrine of bringing the “the whole soul of a man into activity."
- Author:Scowcroft, AnnSummary:
Winner of the 2011 Concordia University First Book Prize, Quebec Writers’ Federation Literary Awards
Shortlisted for the 2012 Award for People’s Poetry (Acorn-Plantos Award Committee)
Poems exploring the idea of home and...
- Author:Goyette, SueSummary:
Nominated for the 1999 Governor General’s Award for Poetry, the 1999 Pat Lowther Award and the 1999 Gerald Lampert Award and Globe 100 book for 1999
The True Names of Birds is the first book-length collection from a...
- Author:Rice, BruceSummary:
Bruce Rice was moved to words by the natural beauty he saw during repeated travels along Seven Bridges Road just west of Regina and in the landscape around Eastend and the Cypress Hills in southwestern Saskatchewan. As he sought to...
- Author:Abley, MarkSummary:
- Author:Kenyon, MichaelSummary:
If we do not sleep together by March then we will break apart.
Now is the first. Now the second. Now the third. Now the fourth.
If we do not lie down together, you wanting me, I you,we will break apart. Now is the...
- Author:Martonfi, IlonaSummary:
Ilona Martonfi’s third poetry collection, The Snow Kimono, can best described as an obsession with truth. The Snow Kimono invites the reader into a magical world where reality shimmers with the fragile beauty of the...
- Author:Morrigan, ClementineSummary:
The Size of a Bird is an invocation of desire in times of violence and trauma. Refusing to shy away from difficult topics the poet tackles addiction, abuse, suicide, and sexual violence while infusing each word with a...