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  • The tongues of earth
    Auteur:
    Abley, Mark
    Sommaire:

    Along with the finest pieces from his three previous books, often in revised form, The Tongues of Earth includes 20 new poems. Known as a writer of place, in The Tongues of Earth Abley extends his range over time and history. These...
  • The Sutler
    Auteur:
    Kenyon, Michael
    Sommaire:

    If we do not sleep together by March then we will break apart.
    Now is the first. Now the second. Now the third. Now the fourth.
    If we do not lie down together, you wanting me, I you,

    we will break apart. Now is the...
  • The snow kimono : poems and art
    Auteur:
    Martonfi, Ilona
    Sommaire:

    Ilona Martonfi’s third poetry collection, The Snow Kimono, can best described as an obsession with truth. The Snow Kimono invites the reader into a magical world where reality shimmers with the fragile beauty of the...
  • The size of a bird
    Auteur:
    Morrigan, Clementine
    Sommaire:

    The Size of a Bird is an invocation of desire in times of violence and trauma. Refusing to shy away from difficult topics the poet tackles addiction, abuse, suicide, and sexual violence while infusing each word with a...
  • The Secret Signature of Things
    Auteur:
    Joseph, Eve
    Sommaire:

    Shortlisted for the 2010 City of Victoria Butler Book Prize
    and the 2011 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize

    Transparent poems that gesture gracefully toward the great silence at the heart of things.

    Much of this poised...
  • The Scarborough
    Auteur:
    Lista, Michael
    Sommaire:

    The Scarborourgh takes place over three days in 1992: Good Friday, Holy Saturday and Easter Sunday—the weekend 15-year-old Kristin French was abducted and murdered by Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka. In poems both opulent and stricken,...
  • The rules of the game
    Auteur:
    Zeller, Ludwig
    Sommaire:

    The Rules of the Game reintroduces Ludwig Zeller, the great Chilean-Canadian “poet’s poet,” through a selection of his most engaging works. These short poems span a development of almost 60 years. They are Zeller’s brief songs of...
  • The response of weeds : a misplacement of Black poetry on the prairies
    Auteur:
    Bickersteth, Bertrand
    Sommaire:

    Bertrand Bickersteth's debut poetry collection explores what it means to be black and Albertan through a variety of prisms: historical, biographical, and essentially, geographical. The Response of Weeds offers a much-needed window on...
  • The real made up
    Auteur:
    Brockwell, Stephen
    Sommaire:

    From the moment we learn to speak we are always using other people’s words. the real made up improvises on this simple idea of imitation; mimicry becomes a kind of cadence for an interweaving of transcribed speech, ironic song...
  • The milk of amnesia
    Auteur:
    Janess, Danielle
    Sommaire:

    "A vibrating journey across time and the borders of memory and space to voice what was unvoiced, to restore the pieces of a broken world." Tomasz Rózycki, author of Colonies.
  • The mechanical bird
    Auteur:
    Boxer, Asa
    Sommaire:

    An old idea of reality animates the poems in The Mechanical Bird: things are never what they seem. Opening with a quick-talking disquisition on lying (Keep it simple, tidy, / take a noncommittal stance) and ending with masterly...
  • The Martha Landscapes
    Auteur:
    Thibaudeau, Colleen
    Sommaire:

    Readers of Colleen Thibaudeau's selected poems, My Granddaughters Are Combing Out Their Long Hair, will feel at home in The Martha Landscapes, where domestic dearness and the exotic, like strangers, "make their first...
  • The Manhattan Project
    Auteur:
    Hunt, Ken
    Sommaire:

    The hands of humans split the atom and reshaped the world. Gradually revealing a sublime nightmare that begins with spontaneous nuclear fission in the protozoic and ends with the omnicide of the human race, The Manhattan Project traces...
  • The lost cafeteria
    Auteur:
    Ferguson, Joel Robert
    Sommaire:

    Joel Robert Ferguson grew up in a family of working-class evangelical Baptists in the Maritimes and found an escape from that parochial world in literature. In his twenties, that escape became literal, as he hitchhiked across the...
  • The long walk
    Auteur:
    Zwicky, Jan
    Sommaire:

    "The Long Walk carries a lifetime's force of meaning. A deeply beautiful book." Anne Michaels In The Long Walk, Jan Zwicky bears witness to environmental and cultural cataclysm. Both prophetic and acutely personal, these poems extend...
  • The Last House
    Auteur:
    Kenyon, Michael
    Sommaire:

    Shortlisted for the 2010 ReLit Award

    Poems of disturbing beauty, examining personal and collective loss.

    This is Michael Kenyon’s third full-length collection of poems. His poetry and fiction have always been alert to the...
  • The largeness of rescue
    Auteur:
    Tihanyi, Eva
    Sommaire:

    The big theme—perhaps the only theme—is the narrative that unfolds between the bookends of our birth and our death.  Each of us is born into a time and place—our present—and must answer the questions only we can answer for ourselves: ...
  • The King of Bean
    Auteur:
    MacKay, Brent
    Sommaire:

    A sure-tongued linguistic menagerie.

    Brent’s poems also appear in News and Weather: Seven Canadian Poets edited by August Kleinzahler – This anthology cuts into the Canadian poetry scene on a fresh, oblique angle....
  • The hundred lives
    Auteur:
    Thornton, Russell
    Sommaire:

    In The Hundred Lives Russell Thornton illuminates the intricate imaginative orders of love at work within an individual life.
  • The house of Charlemagne
    Auteur:
    Lilburn, Tim
    Sommaire:

    "Louis Riel prophesied that a polyglot Metis nation would rise on the prairies five hundred years after his death, and that it would be called by the "joyous name" of the House of Charlemagne. This new polity would be...

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