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    Cook, Méira
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    Shortlisted for the 1997 Pat Lowther Award and for the 1997 McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award

    Toward a Catalogue of Falling, Méira Cook’s second full-length book, proves that the fall into language can be both...

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    Phillips, Elizabeth
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    Winner, Lesbian Poetry at the 2008 GCLS Literary Awards (Golden Crown Literary Awards) and nominated for LGBT Poetry at the Lambda Literary Awards

    Shortlisted for the 2007 Anne Szumigalsi Award for Poetry and the 2007 Saskatoon...

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    Piepzna-Samarasinha, Leah Lakshmi
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    In their fourth collection of poetry, Lambda Literary Award-winning poet and writer Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha continues her excavation of working-class queer brown femme survivorhood and desire. Tonguebreaker is about surviving...

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    Lee, John B.
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    A long poem dramatizing the clash in visions of the land which occurs when a white settler builds on a sacred Iroquois site.

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    Pierce, E. Alex
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    The poems in E. Alex Pierce's new collection invite readers to meditate upon language embedded in landscape, and trace the formation of a young artist who begins in music, arrives at theatre, and ends in poetry. From striking...

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    Shannacappo, Neal
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    Debut poetry collection by Nakawe writer, illustrator and graphic artist NShannacappo, the poetry best encapsulates the idea of someone who is Asunder. Being broken, but not staying broken and perhaps not being quite whole in the end...

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    Holbrook, Susan L.
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    In 1934, Gertrude Stein asked 'What is poetry and if you know what poetry is what is prose.' Throaty Wipes answers this question and many more! How does broadband work? Does 'chuffed' mean pleased or displeased? What if the generations...

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    Tater, Mallory
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    Mallory Tater's This Will Be Good tells the story of a young woman’s burgeoning femininity as it brushes up against an emerging eating disorder. As the difficulties of her disease reveal themselves, they ultimately disrupt family...

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    Deerchild, Rosanna
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    These are poems about what it means to be from the north ; a town divided along colour lines ; and a family dealing with its history of secrets. At it's core, this collection is about the life of a Cree girl and the places she...

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    Donawa, Wendy
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    An elegiac and incisive debut that blends poems of social justice
    with poems of ordinary life

    In her first collection, Thin Air of the Knowable, the physical landscapes of Wendy Donawa’s life—West Coast, Caribbean...

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    Dachsel, Marita
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    There is beauty in the teacup like dresses requiring crinoline or beaded purses too small to carry anything but anger -- from "Inheritance" Marita Dachsel's third poetry collection explores parenthood, love, and the grief of losing...

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    Bruck, Julie
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    Winner of the 1994 A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry (QSPELL, now the Quebec Writers' Federation)

    In The Woman Downstairs, eloquence joins intimately with an attentive and hungry eye. Julie Bruck explores the accidents and...

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    Lane, M. Travis
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    Winner, New Brunswick Book Award for PoetryA Quill & Quire Best Book of the Year. Like the novella in fiction, the long poem is an oft-neglected form. Too long for publication in most literary journals and anthologies, too short to...

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    Cookshaw, Marlene
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    Shortlisted for the 1990 Dorothy Livesay Award for Poetry (BC Book Prizes)

    Marlene Cookshaw is a Cheshire cat of a poet whose naturally realized details illuminate a shifting wholeness on the "singing edge" between dream and...

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    Green, Albena Beloved
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    The Way We Hold On is Abena Beloved Green's debut book of poetry. Her poems address cultural, social, and environmental issues, relationships, and reflect on everyday life as a small-town raised, semi-nomadic, first-generation...

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    Smart, Carolyn
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    The Way to Come Home is Carolyn Smart's fourth book of poems. It is a collection that ranges from celebrating the rural landscape north of Kingston, Ontario to re-creating the painful last phase of her friend Bronwen Wallace's...

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    Heighton, Steven
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    A collection of laments and celebrations that reflect on our struggle to believe in the future of a world that continues to disappoint us. The poet challenges the boundaries of sleep and even death in these meditations on what lies just...

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    Burgham, Ian
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    This is a collection inspired by Coleridge’s doctrine of bringing the “the whole soul of a man into activity."

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    Scowcroft, Ann
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    Winner of the 2011 Concordia University First Book Prize, Quebec Writers’ Federation Literary Awards

    Shortlisted for the 2012 Award for People’s Poetry (Acorn-Plantos Award Committee)

    Poems exploring the idea of home and...

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    Goyette, Sue
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    Nominated for the 1999 Governor General’s Award for Poetry, the 1999 Pat Lowther Award and the 1999 Gerald Lampert Award and Globe 100 book for 1999

    The True Names of Birds is the first book-length collection from a...

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