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  • Animal Husbandry Today
    Auteur:
    Sharpe, Jamie
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    An accessible and illuminating debut collection that explores the arranged marriage of the bestial and humane

    Logic is strained, existence contracts and multiplies, connections amputate then graft in incongruous...
  • Angel and the Bear
    Auteur:
    Charlton, Brian
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    A pinball wizard stars in this urban romance, set where the blues meet jazz in London, Ontario's historic York Hotel.
  • And the cat says
    Auteur:
    Helwig, Susan L.
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    A love-you-love-you-not daisy petal game for the 21st century, And the Cat Says… is a whimsical, delectable treat; a poetry collection which weaves in some strange haircuts, flying carpets and two sets of twins. Oh, and did we mention...
  • All the names between
    Auteur:
    McCarthy, Julia
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    Grounded in the experience of presence in which the external and internal meet, a crossroads of consciousness where “a language without a name / remembers us” and the poem is a votive act, All the Names Between reflects the shadow-light...
  • All the gold hurts my mouth
    Auteur:
    Leyton, Katherine
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    Katherine Leyton's fresh and vibrant debut collection takes on the sexual politics of the twenty-first century, boldly holding up a mirror to the male gaze and interrogating the nature of images and illusions. Confronting the forces of...
  • All day I dream about sirens
    Auteur:
    Martinello, Domenica
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    "From Homer to Starbucks, a look at sirens and mermaids and feminism and consumerism. What started as a small sequence of poems about the Starbucks logo grew to monstrous proportions after the poet fell under a siren spell herself. All...
  • Alert to glory
    Auteur:
    Ito, Sally
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    Plunging deep into the soul, Sally Ito renders a spiritual examination like no other in her new poetry collection, Alert to Glory. With this cohesive meditation of creativity, motherhood and poetry, Ito discerns spiritual gifts in daily...
  • Al Pittman : collected poems
    Auteur:
    Pittman, Al
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    From the publication of his first collection, The Elusive Resurrection, in 1966, to his death in 2001 at the age of sixty-one, Al Pittman stood as one of the most respected and admired poets in Newfoundland. This definitive edition...
  • Against the flight of spring
    Auteur:
    Briesmaster, Allan
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    Through a dazzling variety of poetic forms and styles, this book restlessly explores such themes as identity, personal growth, love and friendship, Canadian landscape, climate change, visual art, and the roots of poetry itself, in moods...
  • Against forgetting
    Auteur:
    Garebian, Keith
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    A delve into the personal history of a man affected by the Armenian genocide and the ways he makes Canada home. The poetic lines and strong emotional tug of the book outline the long lasting effects of trauma and what it means to remake...
  • Afterwords
    Auteur:
    Cook, Geoffrey
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    The belief in translation as an act of self-portraiture drives Afterwords, Geoffrey Cook's ambitious reimagining of German poems by Goethe, Heine, Rilke and Brecht. Cook's versions not only transform these foreign texts into...
  • Afloat
    Auteur:
    Reibetanz, John
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    A masterful poet extends his range, bringing both his agile intelligence and musical acuity into play.

    Afloat, John Reibetanz’s eighth collection of poetry, focuses on water in many manifestations. The centerpiece, a...
  • Adagio for the horizon
    Auteur:
    Whitt, Laurelyn
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    The horizon is a type of boundary phenomenon. This book embraces the horizon literally understood, as the apparent boundary between earth and sky. It also draws on various metaphorical horizons, tracing the limits of human perception,...
  • A weathering of years
    Auteur:
    Hare, Carl
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    Here green-leafed memories invade the mind; Here our young profuse acts luxuriate; And then leaf-fallen times can be defined; And then the old, snow-fallen thoughts await. These poems explore our ages by the season: Child's adventure in...
  • A Season of Mourning
    Auteur:
    Itani, Frances
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    Frances Itani’s third book of poetry consists of two deeply moving elegiac sequences commemorating the deaths of a sister and friend. In chaste and determinedly unsentimental language, Itani takes us through the crises all must face,...
  • A samurai's pink house
    Auteur:
    Saikaley, Sonia
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    The poems in A Samurai’s Pink House are threaded with the transformation of the seasons from Matsuo Basho’s travels to a love affair between a kabuki cross-dresser and a lonely geisha and the struggles of women in ancient and...
  • A river at night
    Auteur:
    Zemokhol, Paul
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    An archaeologist of the human heart, Paul Zemokhol uncovers the memories of his Egyptian ancestors and their lost world by the Nile, and he starkly juxtaposes them with his own plain experiences of Canadian urban life in Toronto and...
  • A Possible Landscape
    Auteur:
    Harris, Maureen
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    Maureen Harris’s first volume of poetry evokes “a possible landscape,” where the stories that subtly shape us blend with the moments that we are. Here is an Eden where Eve longs for the serpent’s “green quiver,” his “sibilant caress,”...
  • A place called no homeland
    Auteur:
    Thom, Kai Cheng
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    In these fierce yet tender narrative poems, Kai Cheng Thom draws equally from memory and mythology to create new maps of gender, race, sexuality, and violence.
  • A Page from the Wonders of Life on Earth
    Auteur:
    Bolster, Stephanie
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    Shortlisted for the 2012 Pat Lowther Memorial Award

    An ambivalent zoo-tour, an open-eyed meander through a landscape of made and contained things. 

    A Page from The Wonders of Life on Earth is a book with a...

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