Winner of the 1993 Archibald Lampman Award and shortlisted for the 1992 Pat Lowther Award
Summer Grass follows Marianne Bluger's previous Brick books, On Nights Like This (1984) and Gathering Wild (1988...
Winner of the 1993 Archibald Lampman Award and shortlisted for the 1992 Pat Lowther Award
Summer Grass follows Marianne Bluger's previous Brick books, On Nights Like This (1984) and Gathering Wild (1988...
Allison LaSorda's Stray shows the formation of a considerable poetic talent. These poems are sun-bleached, at once gritty, raw, and playful. LaSorda can conjure childhood memories of beaches and ice cream, ponder the elemental force of...
By turns funny, frank, mysterious, and heartbreaking, Standing in the Flock of Connections, Heather Cadsby's fifth collection of poetry, is one hundred proof associative thought. These poems testify to the human mind's...
Stand by est le mouvement d’amour d’une voix qui cherche à approcher le corps du père, cerné ici à partir de ses failles et de ses fatigues. Ces moments de désœuvrement sont recueillis comme de précieux instants où quelque chose se...
Winner of the 1999 Governor General’s Award for Poetry and shortlisted for the 1999 Pat Lowther Award and the 1999 Dorothy Livesay Award for Poetry (BC Book Prize)
Songs for Relinquishing the Earth contains many poems of...
In a series of poems inspired by Gustav Mahler's Kindertotenlieder, E.D. Blodgett searches for meaning amidst grief. In the contemplative gentleness of his words, he finds the special light children possess in their state of...
Sommeils prend forme dans un univers de soleil et de plage, non loin des bruits de la ville, teinté de rêveries d’enfants et des menus détails d’une fin d’été heureuse.
Stately and majestic, yet scuffed with wear and disillusion, the poems of Smaller Hours mount the sky like columns and fora of some archaic ruin. Through these ancient halls, Kevin Shaw tracks Eros, clearing away the rubble and...
Think Kierkegaard in a spacesuit, Kubrik in a Left Bank café.Like the neutrino observatory of its title, Midday at the Super-Kamiokande seeks "glimpses of the obscure" to carve out meaning, alternately a resistance to...
The ancestors, living at the time of European contact had a way with words. Poetry spilled effortlessly from their lips because the spirit of the land guided their words. I take seriously my belief that medicine of extraordinary healing...
A legend of 19th century French Canadian poetry, Émile Nelligan was only 16 when he fell under the influence of Baudelaire and Rimbaud and began writing taut, confidently surrealistic poems, shot through self-lacerating melancholy....
Kids still not up? Still sound asleep? Snoozing rug-bugs in a heap. Time to do whatever it takes. Read aloud from SHAKE-AWAKES! Slimy, stinky, stuffed with dread- these poems will scare kids out of bed! But, hey, kids, there are poems...
Poets and identical twins Daniel and David Simpson were born blind in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, in 1952. Each has recently released a book of poems that speaks openly and frankly about their adventures attending a school for the blind...
On “A Girl Like This Might Have Loved Glenn Gould”: “The poem sits up at its greasy-spoon counter and recounts its tale, a kind of cryptic plain-speech, an inverted code, all the more puzzling for what it plainly says: ‘Under a spell so...
Poems that unfold like liturgy, confronting old violence with a trembling, dignified restraint.
The names of colors are woven into unrhymed poems that celebrate the seasons.
A continuation of the author's Autobiography of red (1998), following the characters in later life, but in a different style and with changed names.
Anxious, twitchy, urgent poems-a collection that's at once sardonic and "chronically wishful."
Humorous poems for children about colourful clothing, shoes, and even hair.