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Poetry

  • Cartography and Walking
    Author:
    Dickinson, Adam
    Summary:

    Shortlisted for the 2003 Henry Kreisel Award for Best First Book (Writers Guild of Alberta Award)

    Without you,
    I have taken to drawing maps
    on the backs of photographs.
    On the coast in a raincoat
    your...
  • Caribou run
    Author:
    Kemick, Richard Kelly
    Summary:

    At one moment, a pure abstraction; at the next, an incontrovertible presence of hooves, antlers, and fur. The beating heart of this assured début by Richard Kelly Kemick is the Porcupine caribou herd of the western Arctic. In Caribou...
  • Breathing room
    Author:
    Gobeil, Beth
    Summary:

    A mother's story. A son's story. Poems that touch us. Breathing Room, by Beth Gobeil narrates a difficult story; a mother's journey, beginning at the point her son is diagnosed with Cystic Fibrosis. Saskatchewan poet,...
  • Branches
    Author:
    Truscott, Mark
    Summary:

    Careful attention reveals that, even in moments that seem insignificant, our minds are constantly navigating disjunctions among registers of experience. Our intellect silently reminds our eyes that the car that appears to be moving...
  • Bicycle thieves : poems
    Author:
    di Michele, Mary
    Summary:

    A masterwork from one of Canada’s most important poets

    Referencing the post-war neorealist film by Vittorio De Sica, Mary di Michele’s Bicycle Thieves commemorates her Italian past and her life in Canada through...
  • Beyond mudtown : poetry by Rob Rolfe
    Author:
    Rolfe, Rob
    Summary:

    Mudtown was a working-class neighbourhood tightly wedged between once busy docks, factories and the escarpment along the east shore of Owen Sound Bay. It was regularly inundated with mud during spring rains. Beyond Mudtown, Rob Rolfe’s...
  • Between the lines
    Author:
    Grimes, Nikki
    Summary:

    This thought-provoking companion to Nikki Grimes' Coretta Scott King Award-winning Bronx Masquerade shows the capacity poetry has to express ideas and feelings, and connect us with ourselves and others. Darrian dreams of writing for the...
  • Beauty is a verb the new poetry of disability
    Author:
    Summary:

    "Beauty is a Verb is the first of its kind: a high-quality anthology of poetry by American poets with physical disabilities. Poems and essays alike consider how poetry, coupled with the experience of disability, speaks to the poetics of...
  • Augustine in Carthage, and Other Poems
    Author:
    Porco, Alessandro
    Summary:

    Augustine in Carthage, and Other Poems is the daring new collection of poetry from Alessandro Porco.

    Equally crude and charming, locker-room macho and sensitive, these poems are always singularly marked by formal...
  • Attack of the toga gang
    Author:
    Bowering, George
    Summary:

    Thirteen-year-old Harry Fieldstone and his friends start a Poets' Club at school, then Harry stumbles across a ring. He discovers the ring gives him different powers every day. Harry and the gang learn that the ring can be traced...
  • Astatine
    Author:
    Kenyon, Michael
    Summary:

    An award-winning writer conjures the Muse and the “noble gases” in this elemental and incandescent new collection.

    Astatine is an Italian girl, who like Dante’s Beatrice, haunts the narrator of Michael Kenyon’s incandescent...
  • Animal Husbandry Today
    Author:
    Sharpe, Jamie
    Summary:

    An accessible and illuminating debut collection that explores the arranged marriage of the bestial and humane

    Logic is strained, existence contracts and multiplies, connections amputate then graft in incongruous...
  • Anatomic
    Author:
    Dickinson, Adam
    Summary:

    The poems of Anatomic have emerged from biomonitoring and microbiome testing on the author's body to examine the way the outside writes the inside, whether we like it or not. Adam Dickinson drew blood, collected urine, swabbed...
  • An honest woman
    Author:
    Kirton, Jónína
    Summary:

    "An Honest Woman by Jónína Kirton confronts us with beauty and ugliness in the wholesome riot that is sex, love, and marriage. From the perspective of a mixed-race woman, Kirton engages with Simone de Beauvoir and Donald Trump to...
  • Amis and Amiloun, Robert of Cisyle, and Sir Amadace
    Author:
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  • Amalg'âme haltes tendresse
    Author:
    Bouchard, Angéline
    Summary:

    Amalg’âme est le premier récit de cette tendre aventure où je me suis arrêtée sur le parcours de ma vie ainsi que sur la voie du rêve et de l’imaginaire. Ce recueil est né du plaisir même du voyage et du désir de le partager. Qui sait,...
  • Adult Language Warning
    Author:
    Robertson, William
    Summary:

    At the time of writing this book, William Robertson was a homemaker. His poems bring a new passion to the ancient domestic scene, and to everything else he looks at out of that often-turbulent centre. He ventures with care "into a...
  • A woman clothed in words
    Author:
    Szumigalski, Anne, Abley, Mark
    Summary:

    Collected for the first time, the most powerful writing, poetry and otherwise, created by Anne Szumigalski, Governor General's Award-winning poet from Saskatchewan.

    Anne Szumigalski, renowned for her breakout poetry collection...
  • A river at night
    Author:
    Zemokhol, Paul
    Summary:

    An archaeologist of the human heart, Paul Zemokhol uncovers the memories of his Egyptian ancestors and their lost world by the Nile, and he starkly juxtaposes them with his own plain experiences of Canadian urban life in Toronto and...
  • A random walk through a poet's life
    Author:
    SCHUBERT, L. A
    Summary:

    A random arrangement of the poetic writings of the author wherein a lifetime of experience, joy and sorrow are sometimes starkly and vividly expressed.

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