Shortlisted for the 2007 Trillium Book Award for Poetry
Ecologically aware poems, hardwired to the intellect and the heart in equal measure.
Adam Dickinson’s poems, with firm intellectual bite and imaginative scope, reach...
Shortlisted for the 2007 Trillium Book Award for Poetry
Ecologically aware poems, hardwired to the intellect and the heart in equal measure.
Adam Dickinson’s poems, with firm intellectual bite and imaginative scope, reach...
Jonas in Frames is [choose one]: A) a series of loosely connected narrative fragments written in poetic prose; B) a maze of postcard stories bursting with literary in-jokes; C) a delicate sequence of prose poems interspersed with...
A collection of 10 readers performing Jabberwocky.
It Begins With The Body by Hana Shafi explores the milestones and hurdles of a brown girl coming into her own. Shafi's poems display a raw and frank intimacy and address anxiety, unemployment, heartbreak, relationships, identity,...
Ma plume s’affole. Elle déverse son flot de mots exprimant un instant fugace qui éveille en moi une aura irrésistible. Vite, je capte l’effluve avant que, dans le vent, il ne s’évapore. Comme une photo saisie à même la source, une...
Immigrant Songs is a posthumous collection of the works of Saro (Rosario) D’Agostino. It includes poems, fiction works that may be chapters of an unfinished novel, and letters. These fragments from a seminal Italo-Canadian writer whose...
Starting with Lucy Terry of the early eighteenth century and finishing with poet laureate Rita Dove, this anthology captures the enormous talent and passion of African American poets.
This finalist for the 2018 Scotiabank Giller Prize is ablaze with urgency and radiant inquiry from a 2015 finalist for the Trillium Book Award for Poetry.
A demand and promise; an obligation and challenge; a protest and call:...
Nominated for Gay Poetry (2009 Lambda Literary Awards)
A journey in search of love through the contemporary homoerotic male body.
Improvising on a variety of poetic forms and traversing disparate landscapes – from Belfast...
Both "grave and brave, serious and hilarious"-new poems from a Governor General's Award-winning poet.
In this breathtaking collection of poems, Pamela Porter invokes the twin mysteries of love and loss to illumine the heart burdened by grief, yet comforted and renewed by the beauty of the natural world. In the long poem “Atonement,”...
Finalist for the 2015 Trillium Book Award for Poetry, the Archibald
Lampman Award, City of Ottawa Book Awards and the ReLit Award
A book of dark corners and shifting locations, full of switches that light up
the...
In her third collection of poetry, Holy Wild, Gwen Benaway explores the complexities of being an Indigenous trans woman in expansive lyric poems. She holds up the Indigenous trans body as a site of struggle, liberation, and beauty. A...
Hiraeth is about women supporting and lending strength and clarity to other women so they know that moving forward is always possible -- and always necessary. It documents a journey of struggle that pertains to a dark point in Canadian...
This is truly revolutionary poetry. From the corner store to the dilapidated school, from the alleys between downtown office buildings to the prison, voices that have been through too much to care and yet still struggle on, relate the...
Human ageing is reversible. Scientific research shows that we can literally turn back the markers of getting old, including blood pressure, muscle strength, cholesterol levels and many others. Using the tools in this book, you can learn...
“In a sober and carefully understated voice I say: this is a damn good poet.” Al Purdy on Backing into Heaven
Ghost Country enters the difficult electric air between cultures and lovers, alive to the fierce...
Fragments II est la suite du premier recueil de poèmes Fragments I. Il a pour principale l’écrit, personnifiant la vie intérieure qui vibre en duo. Il se fait l’écho de la voie profonde captant le souffle brut qui quête sa parcelle d’...
Comme autant de mémoires surgissant de chaque instant, les mots se fragmentent et forment le kaléidoscope de la Vie. Un regard, une émotion, un souvenir ravivent l'impression forte nichée au fond de l'âme attendant l'heure d'imbiber le...