Tuning a fine ear to Lawrence’s letters from 1906 until his death in 1930, Barry Dempster’s poems uncover the man within the myth and give voice to Lawrence’s passionate mortality. Dempster’s act is one of imagination and homage, a kind...
Canadian poetry
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Auteur:Radu, KennethSommaire:The writer of the letter in Kenneth Radu's title poem is reaching across an enormous silence: from a microchipped contemporary Canadian setting to the rest home on the Black Sea where his father is dying; and then even further, back to...
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Auteur:Scheier, JacobSommaire:In Letter from Brooklyn, Jacob Scheier examines love, loss, history, identity, protest, and popular culture. At the heart of his new poems is the notion that we understand who we are by where we have been. Here, a confessional...
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Auteur:Midgley, PeterSommaire:Peter Midgley’s let us not think of them as barbarians is a bold narrative of love, migration, and war hewn from the stones of Namibia. Sensual and intimate, these evocative poems fold into each other to renew and undermine multiple...
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Auteur:Cohen, LeonardSommaire:Published to immediate acclaim in 1956 when he was twenty-two years old, this is Leonard Cohen's first book and contains poems written between the ages of fifteen and twenty.
- Auteur:Shillington, JoanSommaire:
Joan Shillington's third poetry collection, Let This Lake Remember - explores the loss of childhood innocence and fragility of life. From glorious moments to a tragic accident these poems reveal, through landscape influences, how...
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Auteur:McKay, DonSommaire:A prose/poetry sequence concerning the hanged man of London, Ontario, by the award-winning author of Birding, or Desire; Sanding Down This Rocking Chair on a Windy Night; Night Field; Apparatus and Another Gravity.
- Auteur:Rubin, TalyaSommaire:
St. Kilda is a barren, rocky archipelago 60 km off the west coast of Scotland. In 1930, harsh conditions led the islands’ remaining 36 inhabitants to relocate to the mainland. Left behind were seabirds and a population of feral sheep....
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Auteur:Potter, MarilynSommaire:Leave-Taking moves through stages of grief — the reckoning, the remembering, the rituals — after the sudden death of a spouse. The poems trace reflections on a long marriage, and what it is like to be left behind. The poems...
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Navigating through tragedy with sincere inquiry, Learning to Love a River explores unlikely existences in and of Thunder Bay, a small northern Ontario city which is rife with stereotype and misconception. With its insider’s perspective...
- Auteur:MC JuneSommaire:
"Le slam de MC June est une poésie du quotidien, coup de poing, qui ne cherche pas à faire « joli » à tout prix. Aux confins de l’ombre et de la lumière, entre des réalités parfois crues et des réflexions existentielles, MC June joue...
- Auteur:Campbell, ChadSommaire:
Beginning with the arrival of the Campbell clan in Canada in 1827— “pale Scot farmers fording the river, / seated backwards in refusal”—Laws & Locks tracks the history of one family’s struggle with depression, madness and mental...
- Auteur:Colistro, VincentSommaire:
“I was only born into the world,” begins one of Vincent Colistro’s poems, “didn’t invade it, didn’t ransom it for a nicer one.” Late Victorians, Colistro’s debut, is a beguilingly irreverent investigation of the life he was “born into...
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Auteur:Porter, PamelaSommaire:This stunning collection will break your heart and put it back together again, as Pamela Porter unravels a long-held family secret in a moving personal search for redemption, face to face with the question of her own identity. As she...
- Auteur:Paré, ArleenSommaire:
A hymn to a beloved lake, a praise poem in forty-five parts, a contemplation of landscape and memory. Lake of Two Mountains, Arleen Paré's second poetry collection, is a portrait of a lake, of a relationship to a lake, of a...
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Auteur:Smith, Douglas BurnetSommaire:In his fifth book of poetry, Douglas Burnet Smith tunes his eye and ear closely to the world, conscious of those points where the everyday blossoms into fierce magic. The title sequence is a deftly-rendered homage to the work of Georgia...
- Auteur:Marquis, AndréSommaire:
À la surface agitée des eaux, un voilier navigue sur une mer plutôt calme. Contradiction ? Tout dépend du sens que l’ on accorde à « agité ». L’ agitation dont il est question dans les suites qui ouvrent et ferment le recueil témoigne...
- Auteur:Audet, MartineSommaire:
Suie, pleurs, étoiles, neiges et quelques floraisons, le poème n'est-il pas, comme les cendres, ce que l'on recueille avant la dispersion? Et le geste, le souffle du poète, celui d'un laveur/laveuse de cendres? Dans un enchaînement de...
- Auteur:Pleau, MichelSommaire:
La lenteur du monde est un livre de l’aube. Une autre journée se lève sur le monde et voilà que le regard, toujours au début de chaque chose, se fait attentif à tout ce qui commence. Ce recueil est une plongée dans l’enfance, les...
- Auteur:Major, AliceSommaire:
What portents must you divine when a knife falls from the sky into your snow-covered yard? From the bitumen hills of Fort McMurray to the barren reaches of Iceland, Knife on Snow depicts an earth bathed in dragon’s breath, where like...
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