Shortlisted for the 2002 Pat Lowther Award
Foreign Homes, Joan Crate’s second book of poems, explores domesticity and dislocation, where what was thought to be home becomes alien, and where the alien is, piece by piece,...
Poetry
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Author:Crate, JoanSummary: - Author:Lavoie, Daniel, Therrien, Joanne, Le Gall, HuguetteSummary:
La fi nutilité m’habite…Pourquoi ceci me diras-tu?Pour la poésie du futile, la beauté de l’éphémère…Pour la beauté infi nie de la tristesse.Pour moi pour toi qui sommes à la fois rien,à la fois tout.
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Author:Smith, DennisonSummary:The poetry of Fermata, like the pause or hold in music which the word signifies, conjures the audible spaces between notes and the suspended moment. As the author puts it, this is “terse but lateral but lyrical writing.” Her words “are...
- Author:Bifford, DarrenSummary:
Poems about commitment and catastrophe, from a voice of intense lyrical skepticism and wonderful tonal mobility.
- Author:Verret, AiméeSummary:
Le corps d’Isadora n’est plus. Si l’on peut survivre à un accident de la route, on n’échappe pas aux multiples deuils qui ponctuent l’existence, comme à ces nuits qu’il faut traverser, seul ou à deux. On tire une ficelle, on se tricote...
- Author:McManus, RaySummary:
Selected by Kate Daniels as the winner of the South Carolina Poetry Book Prize, Driving Through the Country Before You Are Born is the first collection of poetry from Ray McManus. The speaker in these poems searches for redemption and...
- Author:Dempster, BarrySummary:
Shortlisted for the 2017 Raymond Souster Award
A beloved poet explores why life is so rich, even at the worst of times.
Disturbing the Buddha, Barry Dempster’s fifteenth collection, is disarmingly conversational...
- Author:Ross, Diane-IshaSummary:
Il y avait deux filles, l’une au ras de la ville, l’autre dans le puits, et chacune voyait ses étoiles, et la nuit protégeait leur privauté. Ça aurait pu bien tourner, mais la peur et la peur d’avoir mal de soi blessant l’autre et...
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Author:Owen, CatherineSummary:A moving, lyrical, and original collection from an award-winning poet
Designated Mourner is a collection of elegies for an unconventional spouse and artistic collaborator, lost to addiction at a young age. These...
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Author:Clarke, LauraSummary:A debut collection with a fresh approach
Decline of the Animal Kingdom investigates modern constructs of domesticity, freedom, wilderness, and artificiality to paint a portrait of what it means to be...
- Author:Giroux, RobertSummary:
Le recueil est articulé autour de trois propos distincts : le vieillissement et la mort qui rôdent et menacent les proches, le désir d’ouvrir les frontières du quotidien et l’idée que la vraie vie ne peut être qu’en soi. La dernière...
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Author:Sharpe, JamieSummary:Poems that challenge the depths of perception
Dazzle camouflage, at the beginning of the 20th century, was an attempt to answer the question, How do we hide those things that are too big to hide? Ships, often...
- Author:Schmidt, BrendaSummary:
"Insightful and often humourous, Culverts Beneath the Narrow Road takes us on a journey of connecting people and nature through the unassuming culvert.--
- Author:Avison, MargaretSummary:
Winner of the 2003 Griffin Poetry Prize and of the 2003 CAA Jack Chalmers Poetry Award and Globe 100 book for 2003
“…Margaret Avison is a national treasure. For many decades she has forged a way to write, against the grain, some...
- Author:Glenn, Lorri NeilsenSummary:
Longlisted for the 2008 ReLit Awards
Humane ethnographer, passionate memoirist, lyricist of the acute moment, Lorri Neilsen Glenn explores memory as legacy.
Lorri Neilsen Glenn’s poems welcome the reader into a place where...
- Author:Haché, LucySummary:
Where forest and sea meet beneath an ever-changing sky. In this brave first book, Lucy Haché transports the reader with her personal revelations on self-awareness and identity. Through skilled restraint and beautifully astute...
- Author:Bryden, Diana FitzgeraldSummary:
The early car’s mine.
I leave before the day
puts hardware on;
ride east all the way.I leave before the day
abandons slow calm.
Ride east all the way,
and now a stormabandons...
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Author:Bennett, JonathanSummary:“As accomplished as Jonathan Bennett is at using language, he’s never fussy or precious about it. With his exacting, contemporary voice, part colourful reporter, part reluctant witness, his lines gain their effect by serving experience...
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Author:Howard, VickySummary:"Howard's snowmen, Victorian-styled gardens and holiday scenes appear on some of the nation's bestselling giftwraps, paper products, throws, and clothing." — The Kansas City Star
Artist Vicky Howard creates such lovable snowmen,...
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Author:Gottfriedson, GarrySummary:Chaos Inside Thunderstorms draws the audience into the centre of the tumultuous political, socio/economical and historical reality of the First Nations experience in Canada today. It is poetic expression that examines leadership,...
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