Surrey Stories connect is a time-capsule: a snapshot of Surrey in the fall of 2016. The stories here were written and created on three separate afternoons at three different locations: Cloverdale, Strawberry Hill, and Historic Stewart...
Canadian poetry
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Auteur:Sommaire: - Auteur:Crate, JoanSommaire:
A sequence of poetic reveries that collide and collude suburban routine with subconscious fantasy.
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Auteur:LaSorda, AllisonSommaire:Allison LaSorda's Stray shows the formation of a considerable poetic talent. These poems are sun-bleached, at once gritty, raw, and playful. LaSorda can conjure childhood memories of beaches and ice cream, ponder the elemental force of...
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Auteur:Cohen, LeonardSommaire:This collection brings together, for the first time in one volume, a generous selection of Leonard Cohen's song lyrics and poetry, revealing the range and depth of Cohen's work.
- Auteur:Matuk, NylaSommaire:
In Stranger, Nyla Matuk’s provocative, unabashedly sensual voice leads us to revelations about how our lives are increasingly disembodied by social media’s flattened, outward identity markers. In place of this contested sense of self,...
- Auteur:Webb-Campbell, ShannonSommaire:
Shannon Webb-Campbell's Still No Word seeks the appearance of the self in others and the recognition of others within the self. Patient, searching, questioning, and at times heartbreaking--these poems reveal the deeppast within the...
- Auteur:GoldenEagle, Carol RoseSommaire:
When Carol Rose GoldenEagle was a child, attending Easter church services, she recalls the annual ritual of the priest presenting plaques depicting the stages of Christ's persecution to his resurrection, referred to as the "stations of...
- Auteur:Hunter, CatherineSommaire:
St. Boniface Elegies includes short lyric poems on the themes of domestic life and loss; longer poems that explore the role of the poet within a changing cityscape; and a series of poems that engage with poetic tradition. Hunter plays...
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Auteur:Graham, NeileSommaire:Shortlisted for the 1994 Pat Lowther Award
“I believe in the common magic/ of forests and household gods” writes Neile Graham in “Spells for Clear Vision,” the title poem of this volume. And it is a common magic which she works...
- Auteur:Peters, BradleySommaire:
Poems for and about the incarcerated. Moving from riots to mall parkades to church, the poems in Bradley Peters' debut Sonnets from a Cell mix inmate speech, prison psychology, skateboard slang and contemporary lyricism in a way that is...
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Auteur:Moritz, A. F.Sommaire:A. F. Moritz’s poems integrate nature and enduring myth with our inner life so movingly, so convincingly, that they almost seem to be our own thoughts. His direct and intimate tone, and the power, calm, and clarity of his expression,...
- Auteur:Cull, KerriSommaire:
This collection focuses on physical experience and contemplates the beauty of everyday life – the objects, the stories, and the people that drift in and out. It finds the extraordinary in the ordinary.
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Auteur:Shaw, KevinSommaire:Stately and majestic, yet scuffed with wear and disillusion, the poems of Smaller Hours mount the sky like columns and fora of some archaic ruin. Through these ancient halls, Kevin Shaw tracks Eros, clearing away the rubble and...
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Auteur:Leach, Sara, Bender, RebeccaSommaire:Lauren, who has Autism Spectrum Disorder (an umbrella term that has included Asperger Syndrome since 2013), navigates the ups and downs of school and home life. School friendships have always been a challenge, but Lauren finds she is...
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Auteur:Wheeler, SueSommaire:Shortlisted for the 2001 Pat Lowther Award and the 2001 Dorothy Livesay Award for Poetry (BC Book Prizes)
Hear the rustle all down the block as people unwrap the box of the Fifties. Life will be a clock, a pet, it will wag its...
- Auteur:Hertwig, BenjaminSommaire:
Benjamin Hertwig’s debut collection of poetry, Slow War, is at once an account of contemporary warfare and a personal journey of loss and the search for healing. It stands in the tradition of Wilfred Owen’s “Dulce et Decorum Est” and...
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Auteur:Best, Ashley-ElizabethSommaire:The eagerly anticipated debut from one of Canada’s most exciting new poets
In her debut collection, Ashley-Elizabeth Best explores the cultivation of resilience during uncertain and often trying times. It’s a book built...
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Auteur:Cook, MéiraSommaire:Longlisted for the 2004 ReLit Awards
Slovenly Love is Méira Cook’s third book of poetry. A Fine Grammar of Bones and Toward a Catalogue of Falling, both collections of lyrics, are now joined by a fascinating...
- Auteur:Gordon, ArielSommaire:
aFebruary 2021 to March 2022 was a period of great reflection for two of Canada's most celebrated poets. Ariel Gordon and Brenda Schmidt wrote collaborative poetry, formatted like a call and response. Ariel intended to write about urban...
- Auteur:Richardson, RobinSommaire:
Power and sex take centre stage in Robin Richardson's formidable third collection, Sit How You Want. Plane crashes and automobile mishaps are the backdrop for female narrators who grapple with terror, anxiety, and powerlessness:...
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