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  • Toward the country of light : new and selected poems 1978-2018
    Auteur:
    Cooper, Allan
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    This collection brings together Allan Cooper's best poems over the last forty years. He weaves visions of nature with insight into the workings of the human heart. Read them individually or read them as a single long, flowing and...
  • Toward a Catalogue of Falling
    Auteur:
    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...
  • Torch River
    Auteur:
    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...
  • Tonguebreaker
    Auteur:
    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...
  • To Kill a White Dog
    Auteur:
    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.
  • To float, to drown, to close up, to open
    Auteur:
    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...
  • Through the eyes of asunder
    Auteur:
    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...
  • Throaty wipes
    Auteur:
    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...
  • This will be good
    Auteur:
    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...
  • This radiant life
    Auteur:
    Neveu, Chantal
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    In this stunning long poem, Chantal Neveu draws from the lexicons of science, art, revolution and corporeal movement to forge intense and extended rhythms that invoke the elements and spaces making up our world. This is poetry capable...
  • This is how it is
    Auteur:
    King-Campbell, Sharon
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    Illuminating, poised, and wholly original, the poems of Sharon King-Campbell's This Is How It Isrange across the planet from New Zealand to Thailand to Newfoundland, gathering along the way voices both historical and mythological in a...
  • This is a small northern town
    Auteur:
    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...
  • Thin Air of the Knowable
    Auteur:
    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...
  • There are not enough sad songs
    Auteur:
    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...
  • The Woman Downstairs
    Auteur:
    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...
  • The witch of the inner wood : collected long poems
    Auteur:
    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...
  • The Whole Elephant
    Auteur:
    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...
  • The way we hold on
    Auteur:
    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...
  • The Way to Come Home
    Auteur:
    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...
  • The waking comes late
    Auteur:
    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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