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Canadian poetry

  • Eyes Like Pigeons
    Author:
    Rees, Roberta
    Summary:

    Co-winner of the 1992 Gerald Lampert Award. Winner of the 1992 Writers Guild of Alberta Award for Poetry

    Eyes Like Pigeons, Roberta Rees' long poem, comes back, always, to this: "… Thi' in Vietnamese means poetry." Thi,...
  • Every shameless ray
    Author:
    Timmins, Leslie
    Summary:

    The capacity of the rediscovered world to signal and illuminate, restore and repair, fuels the poems in Every Shameless Ray. In Every Shameless Ray, it's more often possible to find one's way when headed somewhere else....
  • Even this page is white
    Author:
    Shraya, Vivek
    Summary:

    "Vivek's debut collection of poetry, even this page is white, is a bold, timely, and personal interrogation of skin―its origins, functions, and limitations. Poems that range in style from starkly concrete to limber break down...
  • Edge Effects
    Author:
    Conn, Jan
    Summary:

    Mature poems with their finger on the pulse of the dark side of the present.

    Reading Edge Effects, Jan Conn’s masterful eighth collection, is a little like looking at Edward Burtynsky’s photographs of real industrial...
  • Earth Prime
    Author:
    Almon, Bert
    Summary:

    Winner of the 1995 Writers Guild of Alberta Award for Poetry

    Bert Almon’s poems are centred in local, apparently unremarkable moments which are addressed with such a fine, ironic eye that they suddenly yield their innate comedy,...
  • Dust or fire
    Author:
    Faber, Alyda
    Summary:

    Is this life a route or a destination? Alyda Faber's assured début examines the ties that bind us to one another and to the Earth we inhabit, and asks the question, What is left of us when we are gone? In the quiet and unsettling poems...
  • Don't let it end like this tell them I said something
    Author:
    Vermeersch, Paul
    Summary:

    Don’t Let It End Like This Tell Them I Said Something — Paul Vermeersch’s fifth collection of poetry — is, as its title suggests, a lyrical meditation on written language and the end of civilization. It combines centos, glosas...
  • Domestic Economy
    Author:
    Donlan, John
    Summary:

    A sequence of fifty dated poems, four quatrains each; lyrical arguments; quick thinking amid the rational absurdity of everyday machinery; intuitive explorations of unknown energies; a diary of the unconscious.
  • Dog ear
    Author:
    Johnstone, Jim
    Summary:

    Like the “page turned down to make another / page,” Dog Ear explores the marks we leave on a world whose social and political markers are constantly shifting. In his fourth book of poems—and most powerful work to date—Jim Johnstone...
  • Diversion
    Author:
    Murray, George
    Summary:

    New poems from one of Canada’s best-known poets

    Where most poetry seeks contemplative quiet, as in Wordsworth’s “emotion recollected in tranquility,” Diversion asks: What happens to poetry if...
  • Disturbing the buddha
    Author:
    Dempster, Barry
    Summary:

    Shortlisted for the 2017 Raymond Souster Award

    A beloved poet explores why life is so rich, even at the worst of times.

    Disturbing the Buddha, Barry Dempster’s fifteenth collection, is disarmingly conversational...
  • Deaf heaven
    Author:
    Gottfriedson, Garry
    Summary:

    Follow Garry Gottfriedson in this new collection of combative poems as he compels us and Heaven to listen to the challenges facing First Nation communities today. Employing many of the Secwepemc (Shuswap) images and stories,...
  • Dead Man's Float
    Author:
    Wynand, Derk
    Summary:

    Dead Man’s Float details that sad emblem of Western alienation, the tourist couple in their rented tropical Eden. Here life is temporary and not at all cheap. The wildlife is spectacular, the culture incomprehensible, and the...
  • Dazzle Ships: Poems
    Author:
    Sharpe, Jamie
    Summary:

    Poems that challenge the depths of perception

    Dazzle camouflage, at the beginning of the 20th century, was an attempt to answer the question, How do we hide those things that are too big to hide? Ships, often...
  • Daughters of Men
    Author:
    Leifso, Brenda
    Summary:

    Shortlisted for the 2009 Lampman-Scott Award (for the best book of poetry in the National Capital Region)

    Vivid accessible poems revealing the mythic proportions of a seemingly simple, rural childhood and the passions that course...
  • Dark water songs
    Author:
    Soutar-Hynes, Mary Lou
    Summary:

    The poems in Dark Water Songs begin on the margins of islands and ancestors, and fan out, probing love, loss and life’s dilemmas. They expand and deepen the poetic exploration which began with her earlier collections, mining...
  • Dancing on a pin
    Author:
    Fretwell, Katerina Vaughan
    Summary:

    Dancing on a Pin is Katerina Fretwell’s eighth poetry, and art, collection. Honest, stark, brave, and at times a humorous evoking of feelings and ideas, this collection of evocative poems is focused on the poet’s husband's...
  • Cut-up Apologetic
    Author:
    Sharpe, Jamie
    Summary:

    Up-and-coming poet Jamie Sharpe presents a finely tuned second collection

    Cut-up Apologetic, Sharpe’s second collection, explores aging in a world where youth is terrible and something we desperately want back....
  • Cries from the Ark
    Author:
    MacIsaac, Dan
    Summary:

    A pitch-perfect debut and a call to act in the service of Earth
    through radiant attention

    Humankind, at present, has breached floodgates that have only been breached before in ancient stories of angry gods, or so far back...
  • Could Be
    Author:
    Cadsby, Heather
    Summary:

    Poems about the unexpected and often wry coincidences language lends to life.

    In Could be, each poem is a moment of engaged and isolated attention, prodding language, relationships, the mundane aspects of daily life,...

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