Fraught with fatal mishaps and disastrous near misses, the missions of the space race between the Soviet Union and the United States defined an era and exemplified the global socio-political conflict of the Cold War. The Lost Cosmonauts...
Poetry
- Author:Hunt, KenSummary:
- Author:Atwood, MargaretSummary:
This cycle of poems is perhaps the most memorable evocation in modern Canadian literature of the myth of the wilderness, the immigrant experience, and the alienating and schizophrenic effects of the colonial mentality. Since it was...
- Author:Spicer, JackSummary:
- Author:Lilburn, TimSummary:
"Louis Riel prophesied that a polyglot Metis nation would rise on the prairies five hundred years after his death, and that it would be called by the "joyous name" of the House of Charlemagne. This new polity would be...
- Author:Legris, SylviaSummary:
In her first full-length collection published in the United States, Sylvia Legris probes and peels, carves and cleaves, amputates and dissects, to reveal the poetic potential of human and animal anatomy. Starting with the Greek writings...
- Author:Marlatt, DaphneSummary:
Winner of the Dorothy Livesay Poery Prize
Finalist for the Pat Lowther Memorial Award“You remember — what is it you remember? / the feel of home, that moment of coming into your body. . . ”
So...
- Author:Di Michele, MarySummary:
The poems in The Flower of Youth depict the coming of age and into sexual difference of the great writer and film director, Pier Paolo Pasolini. The time of this story is World War II; the place is German-occupied northern...
- Author:Waltner-Toews, DavidSummary:
On the day that David Waltner-Toews’ young daughter Rebecca gave “Mr. Fluff, that venerable stuffed dog” to her older brother, the poet learned a lesson in community building – to get what you really want you must give it away and then...
- Author:Banks, ChrisSummary:
Consciousness and nostalgia in the Swipe Right age
This collection attempts to find poetry, or what Gwendolyn MacEwen once called “a single symmetry,” amid the chaos of 21st-century life. A powerful catalogue of loss and...
- Author:Park, JeffSummary:
- Author:Neruda, PabloSummary:
Surrounded by sea, sun, and Capri's natural splendors, Neruda addressed these poems to his lover Matilde Urrutia. This complete collection has become a classic for love-struck readers around the world, passionately sensuous and...
- Author:Peacock, MollySummary:
In her latest collection Molly Peacock, one of Canada's most beloved poets, tells the story of her longtime psychoanalyst who returned to painting after surviving a stroke. By translating techniques of visual art into language, The...
- Author:VirgilSummary:
This enduring masterpiece tells of the epic quest of Aeneas, who flees the ashes of Troy to found a new civilization: Rome. Caught between passion and fate, his vision would change the course of the Western world.
- Author:Chéné, LucieSummary:
Dans son troisième recueil, Lucie Chéné explore ces « terres fragiles » qui sont le lot de bien des êtres humains, celles de l’attente, de l’absence et de l’abandon. Elle construit un univers onirique, où le corps arrive à surmonter sa...
- Author:Sylvestre, RobertSummary:
Il peut nous sembler qu’une porte est fermée, comme un cœur peut l’être. Des mains chercheuses s’activent cependant, dans les directions contradictoires propres à l’époque. Sous la canicule – voire l’effroi – le mystère pourtant demeure...
- Author:Tolkien, J. R. R.Summary:
- Author:Blais, MathieuSummary:
Sylvestre est la quête d’un père qui veut transmettre à ses enfants le désir de réinvestir le pays. Une quête poétique qui cherche à établir des ponts entre ce qu’était hier et ce que sera demain. Un poème/mythe aussi, qui cherche à...
- Author:SHIELDS, CarolSummary:
Swann is the story of four individuals who become entwined in the life of Mary Swann, a rural Canadian poet whose authentic and unique voice is discovered only hours before her husband hacks her to pieces.Who is Mary Swann? And how...
- Author:AYRES, PamSummary:
Humorous anecdotes and poems by the well-loved English poet, Pam Ayres.
- Author:HOLLAND, PeterSummary:
An assortment of stories, articles, poems and images by best loved authors and some newcomers.