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  • Handwriting
    Auteur:
    Ondaatje, Michael
    Sommaire:

    Ondaatje's new collection of poetry explores themes of love, landscape, and the sweep of history set in the poet's first home, Sri Lanka. 1998.
  • Halfling spring : an internet romance
    Auteur:
    Arnott, Joanne
    Sommaire:

    In Halfling spring, a series of notes unfolds the dance of desire versus trust through a long season of actual and metaphorical springtime. Joanne Arnott is a Metis/mixed blood mother of six, and in this collection she continues her...
  • Hail, the invisible watchman
    Auteur:
    Oliver, Alexandra
    Sommaire:

    Hail, The Invisible Watchman is haunted poetry--Oliver's formal schemes are as tidy as a picket-fence and as suggestive; behind the charm of rhyme is a vibrant, dark exploration of domestic and social alienation. The poems in Hail...
  • Hacker packer : poems
    Auteur:
    McFadzean, Cassidy
    Sommaire:

    With settings ranging from the ancient sites and lavish museums of Europe to the inner-city neighbourhood in North Central Regina where the poet grew up, the poems in Cassidy McFadzean’s startling first collection embrace myth and...
  • Habitat
    Auteur:
    Wheeler, Sue
    Sommaire:

    In her third collection of poems, Sue Wheeler writes of the ephemeral with an eye trained on the eternal questions. “Who are you?” she asks at the outset of her search for fresh and more telling names for the human in the lush natural...
  • Gutted
    Auteur:
    Christie, Evie
    Sommaire:

    Gutted, Evie Christie’s powerful and harrowing debut, pulses with the rhythms of life, loss, and love. Energized with the language of now and the wide scope of popular culture, while dwelling in Yeats’ “foul rag and bone shop...
  • Grief Notes & Animal Dreams
    Auteur:
    Munro, Jane
    Sommaire:

    Jane Munro’s poems are explorations of the mysteries of inner experience. What are the truths of emotion? What can the body know? In Grief Notes & Animal Dreams, Munro’s third collection, we enter the condition Gaston...
  • Grey all over
    Auteur:
    Actis, Andrea
    Sommaire:

    'Please stay with me, please stay here, please cause poltergeists in my stupid apartment...' Late in the evening of December 13, 2007, Andrea Actis found her father, Jeff, facedown dead in her East Vancouver apartment. So...
  • Gospel drunk
    Auteur:
    Chafe, Aidan
    Sommaire:

    Gospel Drunk follows a speaker’s journey to find clarity and identity as he contemplates his Catholic upbringing and struggles with loneliness and alcohol addiction. Sharp, intoxicating imagery and a minimalist aesthetic combine in...
  • Going Around with Bachelors
    Auteur:
    Walsh, Agnes
    Sommaire:

    Shortlisted for the 2008 Pat Lowther Award and the 2009 Heritage and History Book Award [Writers Alliance of Newfoundland and Labrador], nominated for LGBT Poetry (2008 Lambda Literary Awards) and longlisted for the 2008 ReLit Awards...
  • God's Geography
    Auteur:
    Humphreys, Helen
    Sommaire:

    Don Gutteridge approaches his home town of Point Edward, Ontario, with an array of listening and recording devices, mixing poetry, documentary newspaper collage, interviews and photography. A milestone in the documentary poem.

    “A...
  • Go down Odawa way
    Auteur:
    Lockhart, D. A.
    Sommaire:

    'Odawa Way' is a poetry collection that explores the physical, historical, and cultural spaces that make up the southwestern traditional territory of the Three Fires Confederacy. This is the region currently inhabited by southwestern...
  • Ghosts still linger
    Auteur:
    Cameron, Kat
    Sommaire:

    The poems in Ghosts Still Linger explore the past and present of the prairies, juxtaposing contemporary responses to grief and environmental issues with musings about iconic historical figures such as Buffalo Bill Cody and Annie Oakley...
  • Ghosthawk
    Auteur:
    Rader, Matt
    Sommaire:

    "Many cultures have had names for seers like Matt Rader. Contemporary Western culture has none. This is the book of a man who has died more than once and who carries with him knowledge of the point where being's blaze touches...
  • Ghost Country
    Auteur:
    Noyes, Steve
    Sommaire:

    “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...
  • geo•logics
    Auteur:
    Rowe, Stephen
    Sommaire:

    Stephen Rowe’s geo•logics—his highly anticipated follow-up to Never More There—binds the impermanent to the permanent. With sustained inquiries into loss and reason, Rowe seeks a motivation capable of accepting pain, and reveals the...
  • Gathering wild
    Auteur:
    Bluger, Marianne
    Sommaire:

    Meditative, meticulously-crafted poems that nonetheless take seriously the idea that all poetry is a form of praise, and that "the habit of sadness just isn’t enough/ … / because it isn't joy." Gathering Wild is Marianne Bluger...
  • Garden physic
    Auteur:
    Legris, Sylvia
    Sommaire:

    "At the center of the garden the heart," she writes, "Red as any rose. Pulsing / balloon vine. Love in a puff." As if composed out of a botanical glossolalia of her own invention, Legris's poems map the garden as body and the body as...
  • From the Medley
    Auteur:
    Dragisic, Peggy
    Sommaire:

    A sequence exploring the bittersweet corners of motherhood.
  • Fresh pack of smokes
    Auteur:
    Blanchard, Cassandra
    Sommaire:

    Dissecting herself and the life she once knew living a transient life that included time spent in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside as a bonafide drug addict, Blanchard writes plainly about violence, drug use and sex work in Fresh Pack of...

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