The poems in Collecting Silence arc through youth, love and loss, to maturation, aging, peace. Wide travels throughout Asia, Europe and North America bring Narwani face to face with the oppressions of poverty, caste and religion, as...
Canadian poetry
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Author:Narwani, UlrikeSummary: -
Author:Nowlan, Alden, Bartlett, BrianSummary:Alden Nowlan (1933-1983) once wrote of a desire to leave behind "one poem, one story / that will tell what it was like / to be alive." In an abundance of memorable poems, he fulfilled this desire with candour and subtlety, emotion, and...
- Author:Wynand, DerkSummary:
These flies on a white table burst
into shafts of light and touch down
again, sun-stricken,
the oil of their bodies breaking
light into all its parts.Not yet song, their buzzing proves
less... - Author:Bryden, Diana FitzgeraldSummary:
The early car’s mine.
I leave before the day
puts hardware on;
ride east all the way.I leave before the day
abandons slow calm.
Ride east all the way,
and now a stormabandons...
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Author:Bennett, JonathanSummary:“As accomplished as Jonathan Bennett is at using language, he’s never fussy or precious about it. With his exacting, contemporary voice, part colourful reporter, part reluctant witness, his lines gain their effect by serving experience...
- Author:Morency, JoanneSummary:
Cette lumière dans la paume, on ne l’espérait plus. Ces couleurs qui s’étirent sans se perdre. Toutes choses qui, soudain, semblent se connaître entre elles. Une oie blanche sur fond blanc... Et l’on retrouve ses premiers battements de...
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Author:Porter, PamelaSummary:This collection of poems takes us on a journey — a very personal journey of Pamela Porter's own — to Africa and South America, those corners of the world the news reports never seem to cover: to Angola's thirty-year-long civil war, a...
- Author:Dickinson, AdamSummary:
Shortlisted for the 2003 Henry Kreisel Award for Best First Book (Writers Guild of Alberta Award)
Without you,
I have taken to drawing maps
on the backs of photographs.
On the coast in a raincoat
your... - Author:Smart, CarolynSummary:
Second place winner in the 3rd Annual Fred Cogswell Award for Excellence in Poetry (2016)
Remember Bonnie & Clyde?
A complex, dramatic rendering of a familiar story made new.
Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow are...
- Author:Goobie, BethSummary:
Autobiographical in nature, breathing at dusk follows the journey of one girl as she escapes her childhood home and all of the painful memories that home elicits – her memories largely centered around the physical and sexual abuse she...
- Author:Sinclair, SueSummary:
Shortlisted for 2009 Pat Lowther Memorial Award
and the Atlantic Poetry PrizeThe essence, the quintessence, of lyric poetry.
Sue Sinclair is the direct inheritor of the great early 20th Century German poet, Rilke:...
- Author:Hamilton, J. A.Summary:
Shortlisted for the 1991 Pat Lowther Award
In J.A. Hamilton’s poems blood is red, black hearts are black. There is no flinching from things as bad as they can be, especially but not only for women. And yet, this passionate...
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Author:Munro, JaneSummary:In Blue Sonoma, award-winning poet Jane Munro draws on her well-honed talents to address what Eliot called “the gifts reserved for age.” A beloved partner’s crossing into Alzheimer’s is at the heart of this book, and his “battered blue...
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Author:Priest, RobertSummary:From his first book, The Visible Man (“as fine a first volume of poetry as one is ever likely to read” — the Dalhousie Review), to his most recent, Resurrection In the Cartoon (“passionate, humourous, worldly-wise,...
- Author:Lundy, RandySummary:
An exquisite series of meditations on memory, evanescence and the land. Randy Lundy draws deeply from his Cree heritage and equally from European and Asian traditions. Readers will be reminded by turns of Simon Ortiz, Per Lagerkvist,...
- Author:Domanski, DonSummary:
Winner of the J.M. Abraham Poetry Award at the East Coast Literary Awards and
Finalist for the 2013 Governor General’s Award for PoetryFrom a master poet, meditative lines running like veins through the dark grace of...
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Author:di Michele, MarySummary:A masterwork from one of Canada’s most important poets
Referencing the post-war neorealist film by Vittorio De Sica, Mary di Michele’s Bicycle Thieves commemorates her Italian past and her life in Canada through...
- Author:McGiffin, EmilySummary:
Shortlisted for the Raymond Souster Award and the CAA Award for Poetry 2013
Poems with an urgent desire to discover a way to be in right relation
to other creatures and to the earth itself.There are many journeys...
- Author:Batchelor, RhondaSummary:
The poems in Bearings are arranged in the stressful rhythm of alternation between the intense states of being in love and/or with someone or being alone. Loss refines the vision. For Rhonda Batchelor's poetry that means a gain...
- Author:Moore, RobertSummary:
Taking its inspiration from the Melville’s famous line “If man will strike, strike through the mask!”, Based on Actual Events punches through the surface of visible things, grabbing wild at the drifting actual. Calling himself a “a...
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