Shortlisted for the 1998 Saskatchewan Book Award for Poetry
Don Kerr's fifth poetry collection is a verbal joyride, an exuberant celebration of a book: a celebration of mountains and plains, of growing up and of being young, of...
Canadian poetry
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Author:Kerr, DonSummary: - Author:Roberts, CleaSummary:
Poems like single larches, each in an immense white plain—spare
and clean, their exactness startling and arrestingWhether speaking of erotic love, domestic life, spiritual wilderness, or family entanglements, the poems of...
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Author:Adamson, GilSummary:We look away from his open mouth, / look instead at the corn, the crows / floating above the river in their private worries. / Tonight, when we turn in, / the candle will sputter and blow. Pinched out easily, all flame / gives way to...
- Author:Anderson, MiaSummary:
Verve, energy, wit, piquance and pure linguistic excitement: Mia Anderson's poetry is a whole cookbook of poetic experiences. Anderson is always ready to take big risks, and her work shows her love of life in its manyness and accident,...
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Author:Kennedy, Bill , Wershler-Henry, DarrenSummary:you are entirely happy with your poem / you are not happy then there is no charge and your deposit is returned / you are totally satisfied with the outcome / you are a man / you are a little confused / you are entirely happy with your...
- Author:Humphreys, HelenSummary:
Winner of the 2000 Canadian Authors Association Award for Poetry and shortlisted for the 2000 Pat Lowther Award and the 2001 Milton Acorn Memorial People’s Poetry Prize
Physical and fiercely lyric, Helen Humphreys' Anthem...
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Author:Sharpe, JamieSummary:An accessible and illuminating debut collection that explores the arranged marriage of the bestial and humane
Logic is strained, existence contracts and multiplies, connections amputate then graft in incongruous...
- Author:Charlton, BrianSummary:
A pinball wizard stars in this urban romance, set where the blues meet jazz in London, Ontario's historic York Hotel.
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Author:Helwig, Susan L.Summary:A love-you-love-you-not daisy petal game for the 21st century, And the Cat Says… is a whimsical, delectable treat; a poetry collection which weaves in some strange haircuts, flying carpets and two sets of twins. Oh, and did we mention...
- Author:McCarthy, JulieSummary:
Winner of the 2018 J.M. Abraham Poetry Award;
Finalist for the 2017 Governor General’s Award for PoetryPoems that form an eloquent, searching contemplation of
“the warp and weft of being and nonbeing”...
- Author:Leyton, KatherineSummary:
Katherine Leyton's fresh and vibrant debut collection takes on the sexual politics of the twenty-first century, boldly holding up a mirror to the male gaze and interrogating the nature of images and illusions. Confronting the forces of...
- Author:Martinello, DomenicaSummary:
"From Homer to Starbucks, a look at sirens and mermaids and feminism and consumerism. What started as a small sequence of poems about the Starbucks logo grew to monstrous proportions after the poet fell under a siren spell herself. All...
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Author:Briesmaster, AllanSummary:Through a dazzling variety of poetic forms and styles, this book restlessly explores such themes as identity, personal growth, love and friendship, Canadian landscape, climate change, visual art, and the roots of poetry itself, in moods...
- Author:Reibetanz, JohnSummary:
A masterful poet extends his range, bringing both his agile intelligence and musical acuity into play.
Afloat, John Reibetanz’s eighth collection of poetry, focuses on water in many manifestations. The centerpiece, a...
- Author:Itani, FrancesSummary:
Frances Itani’s third book of poetry consists of two deeply moving elegiac sequences commemorating the deaths of a sister and friend. In chaste and determinedly unsentimental language, Itani takes us through the crises all must face,...
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Author:Saikaley, SoniaSummary:The poems in A Samurai’s Pink House are threaded with the transformation of the seasons from Matsuo Basho’s travels to a love affair between a kabuki cross-dresser and a lonely geisha and the struggles of women in ancient and...
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Author:Zemokhol, PaulSummary:An archaeologist of the human heart, Paul Zemokhol uncovers the memories of his Egyptian ancestors and their lost world by the Nile, and he starkly juxtaposes them with his own plain experiences of Canadian urban life in Toronto and...
- Author:Harris, MaureenSummary:
Maureen Harris’s first volume of poetry evokes “a possible landscape,” where the stories that subtly shape us blend with the moments that we are. Here is an Eden where Eve longs for the serpent’s “green quiver,” his “sibilant caress,”...
- Author:Bolster, StephanieSummary:
Shortlisted for the 2012 Pat Lowther Memorial Award
An ambivalent zoo-tour, an open-eyed meander through a landscape of made and contained things.
A Page from The Wonders of Life on Earth is a book with a...
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Author:Arnott, JoanneSummary:A Night for the Lady explores the terrain of poetry conversation. Each poem arises from conversations with poets, colleagues and intimate friends. They range from a 1998 conversation on healing programs and the fundamentals of world...
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