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    Nilsen, Emily
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    Otolith — the ear stone — is a series of bones that help us to orient ourselves in space. In Otolith, Emily Nilsen attempts a similar feat in poetry: to turn the reader's attention to their relationship to the world, revealing an...

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    Hutchinson, Chris
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    Longlisted for the 2010 ReLit Award

    Exciting music, delicious ironies, radiant self-awareness.

    With imagination, wit and scrupulous candour, Chris Hutchinson’s poems negotiate and renegotiate the shifting no-man’s-land...

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    Cayley, Kate
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    From acclaimed fiction writer and playwright Kate Cayley—
    poems that illuminate the deep strangeness of the familiar

    In Other Houses, Kate Cayley’s second collection of poetry, objects are alive with the presence...

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    Brand, Dionne
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    Le travail de Dionne Brand a toujours été « un creuset de lyrisme incantatoire et de cinglante critique sociale » (Barbara Carey). En effet, couvrant à la fois l’intime et le collectif, Ossuaires opère un désancrage des mots  : délestés...

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    Wigmore, Gillian
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    A polyphonic hymn to Northern British Columbia by one of its boldest, most exciting writers.

    Orient is the third collection from one of Western Canada’s most accomplished poets. Composed mainly of three long poems—an...

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    Enns, Karen
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    Sophomore collection of exquisite precision and musicality from a classically trained pianist

    In Ordinary Hours, the follow-up to Karen Enns’ Gerald Lampert Award-nominated first collection, That Other Beauty,...

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    Hollett, Matthew
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    Peering inside eyeballs, pondering the paradox of absent stars, and meditating on street scenes by André Kertész, these poems squint sidelong at our ways of seeing the world. Through playful poems about photography and visual perception...

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    Included in this unparalleled collection are Christian Bok, Anne Carson, and Erin Moure, whose experiments with genre have landed them international acclaim; Lisa Robertson and Ken Babstock, whose explorations of the pastoral and the...

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    Conley, Tim
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    One False Move is Tim Conley’s debut collection of poetry. As it tightropes along meaning in language, our understandings of, and relationships with, one another, and even our continued survival, it balances elegance with clumsiness,...

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    Bluger, Marianne
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    Marianne Bluger knows what it is to be at sea; oceans of sad and beautiful possibilities wash her poems. And she feels the warmth and fixity of anchorage in home. Tender by nature but tough at need, her language deftly negotiates a...

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    Surkan, Neil
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    All songs have skin, / all skin has holes. On High, Neil Surkan's debut collection of poetry, searches for spirits in myriad places. Wondering how, why, and when to act with a conscience, speakers try out steep hikes, strong drugs...

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    Price, Steven
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    Winner of the 2013 ReLit award for poetry

    Omens, curses, the reading of entrails: means of grappling
    with what is out of our hands, beyond our ken.

    Steven Price’s second collection is part of a long-lived struggle...

  • Auteur:
    Kerr, Conor
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    Métis Ukrainian writer Conor Kerr's sharp and incisive poems move restlessly across landscapes and time. Conor Kerr's poetry is in constant motion. 4Runners streak through the night, racing with coyotes and roving across the land. Buses...

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    Souaid, Carolyn Marie
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    1970. The FLQ has kidnapped and murdered Pierre Laporte. For the narrator, growing up in those days meant living through one of the darkest episodes in Canadian history—a time when army tanks rolled through the streets and bombings and...

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    Humphreys, Helen
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    Alcuin Citation in 1991 for excellence in book design in Canada.

    Nuns Looking Anxious, Listening to Radios is a work in the hazard of retrieval. What sticks in retrospect? Seldom what you would expect, not always the...

  • Auteur:
    Evanson, Tanya
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    Nouveau Griot is the result of 20 years on stage and in studio. It is the text from four spoken word audio recordings made between 2004-2016: Invisible World, The Memorists, Language for Gods and ZENSHIP. This work is in the continuum...

  • Auteur:
    Blais, Mathieu
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    Notre présomption d’innocence raconte en trois temps une histoire vieille comme le monde où les misères et les échardes de la liberté sont préférées au confort gras de la servitude. Écrit à la pointe de la bouteille, dans le fond de la...

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    Porter, Pamela
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    Pamela Porter's poems celebrate a world awaiting discover. She opens this new collection with a poem entitles “An Offering” in which she brings to the ceremony “poems / for every season — of dreams born, / burning, broken” and, in...

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    Quinn, Judy
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    A rogue moose wanders into a suburb near Quebec city, tramples lawns and gardens, stumbles in and out of a swimming pool, is tracked by three gun toting heads of family who shoot it down just as a school bus goes by wherein a little...

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    Fuhr, Laurie
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    These poems capture the ways of the great Canadian military brat, vanishing points, flights, and gothic perceptions. Shortlisted for the Robert Kroetsch award for experimental poetry, these poems contain the rhythm of a musician and the...

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