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Canadian poetry

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    Enns, Karen
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    Sophomore collection of exquisite precision and musicality from a classically trained pianist

    In Ordinary Hours, the follow-up to Karen Enns’ Gerald Lampert Award-nominated first collection, That Other Beauty,...

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    Included in this unparalleled collection are Christian Bok, Anne Carson, and Erin Moure, whose experiments with genre have landed them international acclaim; Lisa Robertson and Ken Babstock, whose explorations of the pastoral and the...

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    Conley, Tim
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    One False Move is Tim Conley’s debut collection of poetry. As it tightropes along meaning in language, our understandings of, and relationships with, one another, and even our continued survival, it balances elegance with clumsiness,...

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    Bluger, Marianne
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    Marianne Bluger knows what it is to be at sea; oceans of sad and beautiful possibilities wash her poems. And she feels the warmth and fixity of anchorage in home. Tender by nature but tough at need, her language deftly negotiates a...

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    Surkan, Neil
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    All songs have skin, / all skin has holes. On High, Neil Surkan's debut collection of poetry, searches for spirits in myriad places. Wondering how, why, and when to act with a conscience, speakers try out steep hikes, strong drugs...

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    Price, Steven
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    Winner of the 2013 ReLit award for poetry

    Omens, curses, the reading of entrails: means of grappling
    with what is out of our hands, beyond our ken.

    Steven Price’s second collection is part of a long-lived struggle...

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    Humphreys, Helen
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    Alcuin Citation in 1991 for excellence in book design in Canada.

    Nuns Looking Anxious, Listening to Radios is a work in the hazard of retrieval. What sticks in retrospect? Seldom what you would expect, not always the...

  • Author:
    Blais, Mathieu
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    Notre présomption d’innocence raconte en trois temps une histoire vieille comme le monde où les misères et les échardes de la liberté sont préférées au confort gras de la servitude. Écrit à la pointe de la bouteille, dans le fond de la...

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    Porter, Pamela
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    Pamela Porter's poems celebrate a world awaiting discover. She opens this new collection with a poem entitles “An Offering” in which she brings to the ceremony “poems / for every season — of dreams born, / burning, broken” and, in...

  • Author:
    Stefanik, Jason
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    "Poems about alchemy, love, Protestant witch judges, Indigenous identity, the cultural abutments of the inner city, football taunts, border ballads, and halfbreed wailing. Night Became Years is poetry in the sauntering tradition of the...

  • Author:
    Kleinzahler, August
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    This anthology cuts into the Canadian poetry scene on a fresh, oblique angle. Included are Robert Bringhurst, Margaret Avison, A.F. Moritz, Guy Birchard, Terry Humby, Alexander Hutchison and Brent MacKay.

  • Author:
    Day, David
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    Nevermore: A Book of Hours is a modern bestiary and a book of remembrance, a distillation of 30 years of research and meditation by author and poet David Day, an acknowledged authority on the extinction of species. In its conception and...

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    Elmslie, Susan
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    A meditative and piercing collection that explores traumas
    both ordinary and out of the ordinary

    Museum of Kindness, Montreal poet Susan Elmslie’s searching second collection of poetry, is a book that bravely...

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    Scheier, Jacob
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    Both chronicle and confrontation, the poems of Jacob Scheier’s debut work out and through notions of loss. As the death of a young man’s mother instigates and informs these investigations, the realities of romantic failures become...

  • Author:
    Bruck, Julie
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    Winner of the 2012 Governor General’s Award for Poetry

    Globe 100 Book for 2012

    Shortlisted for Pat Lowther Memorial Award and CAA Award for Poetry 2013

    Comic and sober by turns, these poems ask us
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    Prior, Michael
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    A mesmerizing and moving first collection, Model Disciple gives us a poetry of two minds. Confounded by Japanese-Canadian legacies too painful to fully embrace, Michael Prior’s split speakers struggle to understand themselves as they...

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    Webster, Derek
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    In poetry that strikes a delicate balance between candour and lament., Mockingbird tracks the aftershocks of a failed marriage through a variety of self-portraits. Derek Webster’s speakers itemize their regrets and fears while keeping...

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    Reibetanz, John
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    Shortlisted for the 2001 ReLit Awards

    John Reibetanz is good on grief: “You, mother,/ dying, left what was hard first:/ bones weeping into/ / your veins like flutes, teeth/ vanished on some hospital/ lunch tray” This conjunction...

  • Author:
    Kaur, Rupi
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    The book is divided into four chapters, and each chapter serves a different purpose. Deals with a different pain. Heals a different heartache. milk and honey takes readers through a journey of the most bitter moments in life and finds...

  • Author:
    Reibetanz, John
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    Reading John Reibetanz, one is struck with the way language, closely attended to, kept oiled and sharp, can give experience back its bite. And conversely, how experience can be the whetstone for language, chastening its presumptions and...

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