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: ...
Canadian poetry
- Auteur:Tihanyi, EvaSommaire:
- Auteur:MacKay, BrentSommaire:
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....
- Auteur:Thornton, RussellSommaire:
In The Hundred Lives Russell Thornton illuminates the intricate imaginative orders of love at work within an individual life.
- Auteur:Cooley, DennisSommaire:
Robert Kroetsch, one of Canada's most important writers, was a fierce regionalist with a porous yet resilient sense of "home." Although his criticism and fiction have received extensive attention, his poetry remains underexplored. This...
- Auteur:Trussler, MichaelSommaire:
Exploring what it means to be alive in this increasingly contradictory, unjust, and frightening era in human history, award-winning poet Michael Trussler grapples with the beauty and violence of the present in his new collection, The...
- Auteur:Legris, SylviaSommaire:
In her first full-length collection published in the United States, Sylvia Legris probes and peels, carves and cleaves, amputates and dissects, to reveal the poetic potential of human and animal anatomy. Starting with the Greek writings...
- Auteur:Nepveu, PierreSommaire:
The Hardness of Matter and Water fulfills a poetic odyssey Quebecois poet Pierre Nepveu began over four decades ago. Through a sequence of four prose poems, his anonymous protagonist walks from the heart of present-day Montreal into its...
- Auteur:Sommaire:
The highly anticipated annual anthology of the best Canadian and international poetry. Each year, the best books of poetry published in English internationally and in Canada are honoured with the Griffin Poetry Prize, one of the world’s...
- Auteur:McOrmond, SteveSommaire:
Poems that occupy the difficult territory of contemporary crisis with great candour and trenchant wit.
Steve McOrmond’s unflinching take on contemporary life, with its saturnine candour and ironic focus, may remind readers of the...
- Auteur:Paré, ArleenSommaire:
A long poem memorializing the art and lives of sculptors Frances Loring and Florence Wyle. Arleen Paré, in her first book-length poem after her Governor General Literary Award-winning Lake of Two Mountains, turns her cool, benevolent...
- Auteur:Nepveu, PierreSommaire:
The Four-Doored House evokes two key women in Pierre Nepveu's life. First, his granddaughter Lily, who he imagines maturing into a complex world, haunted by her memory of him as he is haunted now by her projected self, navigating...
- Auteur:Lilley, JoannaSommaire:
A sardonic, stinging wake-up call to the complexities of modern existence
The Fleece Era is Yukon-based, UK-born Joanna Lilley’s first book of poems: a wry and eloquent testament to the intricacies of our various relationships....
- Auteur:Waltner-Toews, DavidSommaire:
On the day that David Waltner-Toews’ young daughter Rebecca gave “Mr. Fluff, that venerable stuffed dog” to her older brother, the poet learned a lesson in community building – to get what you really want you must give it away and then...
- Auteur:Vermeersch, PaulSommaire:
Poetry kills the beautiful people. The Fat Kid, Paul Vermeersch’s second full-length collection of poetry, chronicles a childhood troubled by obesity, poor body image, and low self-esteem. The media’s perfect faces, societal...
- Auteur:Bitar, WalidSommaire:
The Empire's Missing Links explores a world familiar to readers of Walid Bitars previous three books: a world where language is never simple, where the most ordinary words are weapons used against us in the play for private and public...
- Auteur:Dandurand, Joseph A.Sommaire:
Dandurand's work tackles complicated personal and social issues by drawing on his observations of the natural world. His voice is lyrical yet intimate, obscured, yet sitting with you at the kitchen table having a cigarette. The East...
- Auteur:Lubrin, CanisiaSommaire:
The Dyzgraphxst presents seven inquiries into selfhood through the perennial figure Jejune. Polyvocal in register, the book moves to mine meanings of kinship through the wide and intimate reach of language across geographies and...
- Auteur:Wagner, Bernadette L.Sommaire:
"The Dry Valley encapsulates one woman’s relationship with herself, her alcoholic spouse, and the world, in three different Saskatchewan landscapes. The poems offer a fascinating interplay between mindful explorations of self and...
- Auteur:Greene, ElizabethSommaire:
Adele Wiseman, lifelong writing friend of Margaret Laurence, is best know for her novels, The Sacrifice, winner of the Governor-General's Award in 1956, and Crackpot, Winner of the Canadian Booksellers Association Award in 1974....
- Auteur:Currie, RobertSommaire:
The spotlight is turned on the single events, the chance interactions, the moments that, in their ordinariness, are turning points masquerading as the everyday.
In this sublime collection, the ‘eternal’ boyhood of setting traps,...