First published in 1974, Mourir à Scoudouc emerged out of a period of cultural awakening. Chiasson's poems denounced the narrow limitations of the past and traced the lines of a fresh collective vision. The poems were lyrical,...
Poetry
- Author:Chiasson, Herménégilde, Elder, Jo-Anne, Chiasson, HerménégildeSummary:
- Author:Walcott, DerekSummary:
Tiepolo's Hound joins the quests of two Caribbean men. Camille Pissarro, born in 1830, leaves his native St. Thomas to follow his vocation as a painter in Paris. The poet himself hunts for a detail -- "a slash of pink on the inner thigh...
- Author:AYRES, PamSummary:
These new poems are as outrageous, as wildly funny and as enormously enjoyable as those that made the author so vastly popular.
- Author:Belcourt, Billy-RaySummary:
Part manifesto, part memoir, This Wound is a World is an invitation to 'cut a hole in the sky to world inside.' Billy-Ray Belcourt issues a call to turn to love and sex to understand how Indigenous peoples shoulder sadness and pain like...
- Author:Benning, SheriSummary:
Winner of the 2007 Anne Szumigalski Award for Poetry and the 2007 City of Saskatoon Prize and nominated for Book of the Year (Saskatchewan Book Awards) and longlisted for the 2008 ReLit Awards
Fierce and delicate poems from a...
- 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:ONDAATJE, MichaelSummary:
Selected and new poems offer glimpses of a private world in which images of horror are viewed through mirrors and prisms and in which madmen and animals inhabit a landscape of fearful natural beauty.
- Author:Poe, Edgar AllanSummary:
Collected works of Edgar Allan Poe
- Author:Crozier, LornaSummary:
- Author:Burgham, IanSummary:
This is a collection inspired by Coleridge’s doctrine of bringing the “the whole soul of a man into activity."
- 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:García Lorca, FedericoSummary:
- Author:Zeller, LudwigSummary:
The Rules of the Game reintroduces Ludwig Zeller, the great Chilean-Canadian “poet’s poet,” through a selection of his most engaging works. These short poems span a development of almost 60 years. They are Zeller’s brief songs of...
- Author:Nardone, MichaelSummary:
The Ritualites is Michael Nardone's book-length poem-the first in a series of planned works-on the sonic topography of North America. Composed at sites all across the continent-from Far Rockaway to the Olympic Peninsula, Great Bear...
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This is a collection of 20th and 21st century poets, handpicked by JoAnn Becker and Diane Croft. These are frank poems about young passions and old love, nature and nurture, work affairs and love affairs.
- Author:Humphreys, HelenSummary:
In her third book of poetry The Perils of Geography, Helen Humphreys charts a world that opens under the prodding and promise of language. With the wit and eye for evocative detail which gained readers for both Gods and...
- Author:Major, AliceSummary:
In this ambitious long poem, Alice Major exemplifies the redemptive force of story. Through the light-hearted interplay of such literary touchstones as Chaucer, The Thousand and One Nights, and Greek myth, readers meet receptionist...
- Author:HomerSummary:
- Author:Giovannone, AaronSummary:
Compulsively confessional and cracking-wise, The Nonnets is an utterly unique alchemy of poetry and comedy. Aaron Giovanonne's latest collection is a book-length sequence of 'nonnets'-nine-line poems that Giovannone...
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