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  • Clinic Day
    Auteur:
    Bryden, Diana Fitzgerald
    Sommaire:

    The early car’s mine.
    I leave before the day
    puts hardware on;
    ride east all the way.

    I leave before the day
    abandons slow calm.
    Ride east all the way,
    and now a storm

    abandons...
  • Civil and civic
    Auteur:
    Bennett, Jonathan
    Sommaire:

    “As accomplished as Jonathan Bennett is at using language, he’s never fussy or precious about it. With his exacting, contemporary voice, part colourful reporter, part reluctant witness, his lines gain their effect by serving experience...
  • Childhood thoughts and water
    Auteur:
    McDonald, John
    Sommaire:

    “Childhood Thoughts and Water" is a collection of Beat Poetry, Spoken Word, Performance Art and Lyrical Verse. This is a work which journeys into the memories and events of an Urban Indigenous warrior’s struggles to reconnect with...
  • Check
    Auteur:
    Tolmie, Sarah
    Sommaire:

    Poems about confirmation bias: expect it to be true, it's true.
  • Ce bruit de disparition
    Auteur:
    Morency, Joanne
    Sommaire:

    Cette lumière dans la paume, on ne l’espérait plus. Ces couleurs qui s’étirent sans se perdre. Toutes choses qui, soudain, semblent se connaître entre elles. Une oie blanche sur fond blanc... Et l’on retrouve ses premiers battements de...
  • Cathedral
    Auteur:
    Porter, Pamela
    Sommaire:

    This collection of poems takes us on a journey — a very personal journey of Pamela Porter's own — to Africa and South America, those corners of the world the news reports never seem to cover: to Angola's thirty-year-long civil war, a...
  • Cartography and Walking
    Auteur:
    Dickinson, Adam
    Sommaire:

    Shortlisted for the 2003 Henry Kreisel Award for Best First Book (Writers Guild of Alberta Award)

    Without you,
    I have taken to drawing maps
    on the backs of photographs.
    On the coast in a raincoat
    your...
  • Career limiting moves : interviews, rejoinders, essays, reviews
    Auteur:
    Wells, Zachariah
    Sommaire:

    By turns celebratory and sceptical, Career Limiting Moves is a selection of essays and reviews drawn from a decade of immersion in Canadian poetry. Inhabiting a milieu in which unfriendly remarks are typically spoken sotto voce - if at...
  • Careen
    Auteur:
    Smart, Carolyn
    Sommaire:

    Second place winner in the 3rd Annual Fred Cogswell Award for Excellence in Poetry (2016)

    Remember Bonnie & Clyde?

    A complex, dramatic rendering of a familiar story made new.

    Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow are...
  • Canadian primal : poets, places, and the music of meaning
    Auteur:
    Dickinson, Mark
    Sommaire:

    "Mark Dickinson's Canadian Primalis a decisive event in Canadian literary criticism, comparable to Margaret Atwood's Survival and Northrop Frye's The Bush Garden. Dickinson brings us the lives and achievements of five great poets who...
  • Building a nest from the bones of my people
    Auteur:
    Morgan, Cara-Lyn
    Sommaire:

    Motherhood, trauma, and familial history are woven together into a powerful collection from the award-winning author of What Became My Grieving Ceremony. Beginning with a revelation of familial sexual abuse, Building a Nest from the...
  • breathing at dusk
    Auteur:
    Goobie, Beth
    Sommaire:

    Autobiographical in nature, breathing at dusk follows the journey of one girl as she escapes her childhood home and all of the painful memories that home elicits – her memories largely centered around the physical and sexual abuse she...
  • Breaker
    Auteur:
    Sinclair, Sue
    Sommaire:

    Shortlisted for 2009 Pat Lowther Memorial Award
    and the Atlantic Poetry Prize

    The essence, the quintessence, of lyric poetry.

    Sue Sinclair is the direct inheritor of the great early 20th Century German poet, Rilke:...
  • Book of annotations
    Auteur:
    Anstee, Cameron
    Sommaire:

    The debut collection from small press editor and publisher Cameron Anstee, Book of Annotations deploys a number of minimalist strategies-including erasure, found, lyric, haiku, one-line, one-word, concrete/visual, cento, restricted...
  • Bodymap : poems
    Auteur:
    Piepzna-Samarasinha, Leah Lakshmi
    Sommaire:

    In Bodymap, Lambda Award-winner Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha sings a queer disabled femme-of-colour love song filled with hard femme poetics and disability justice. In this volume, Leah Lakshmi maps hard and vulnerable terrains of...
  • Body work
    Auteur:
    Nielsen, Emilia
    Sommaire:

    If Body Work begins by writing desire through a belief in the stability of the physical body, this is undone in exploring symptoms of disease, new self-knowledge and rewriting one’s personal story. Because Body Work explicitly...
  • Body Rain
    Auteur:
    Hamilton, J. A.
    Sommaire:

    Shortlisted for the 1991 Pat Lowther Award

    In J.A. Hamilton’s poems blood is red, black hearts are black. There is no flinching from things as bad as they can be, especially but not only for women. And yet, this passionate...
  • Blue Pyramids: New and Selected Poems
    Auteur:
    Priest, Robert
    Sommaire:

    From his first book, The Visible Man (“as fine a first volume of poetry as one is ever likely to read” — the Dalhousie Review), to his most recent, Resurrection In the Cartoon (“passionate, humourous, worldly-wise,...
  • Bite Down Little Whisper
    Auteur:
    Domanski, Don
    Sommaire:

    Winner of the J.M. Abraham Poetry Award at the East Coast Literary Awards and
    Finalist for the 2013 Governor General’s Award for Poetry

    From a master poet, meditative lines running like veins through the dark grace of...
  • Bicycle thieves : poems
    Auteur:
    di Michele, Mary
    Sommaire:

    A masterwork from one of Canada’s most important poets

    Referencing the post-war neorealist film by Vittorio De Sica, Mary di Michele’s Bicycle Thieves commemorates her Italian past and her life in Canada through...

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