Siren, Kateri Lanthier’s astonishing second book, calls us to attention. In her search for what she calls “compelling melancholy,” Lanthier’s new poems not only draw on the ghazal's history as love poetry but remind readers of the...
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Auteur:Corkery, MarySommaire:Simultaneous Windows is a metaphoric and narrative journey, both personal and political, in which rebellion, love and loss open windows to change. Each window is a frame that through which we see the limits and possibilities of...
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Auteur:Ridley, SandraSommaire:Grief is personal and unpredictable; no two people experience it the same way, and yet, each person that comes out the other side is transformed by their experience of loss and redemption.
In a sequence of five feverish elegies,...
- Auteur:Crawford, LucasSommaire:
Sideshow Concessions is the first book from queer performer and scholar Lucas Crawford. A collection populated by the circus-like bodies and experiences of a narrator navigating rural pasts and urban presents, Sideshow Concessions is...
- Auteur:McCann, MarcusSommaire:
Half wisecracking tour guide and half flirtatious trick, the poems in Shut Up Slow Down Let Go Breathe examine how we respond to overwork, anxiety, and overstimulation. McCann’s third collection speaks to a world that is too busy and...
- Auteur:Carson, AnneSommaire:
Deluxe redesign of the two-time Griffin Award winner’s first poetry collection. Includes new material. On the occasion of the press’s 40th anniversary, Brick Books is proud to present the first of six new editions of classic books from...
- Auteur:Chafe, AidanSommaire:
Shiver. Swift whip of wind. / Fangs of the low front / stinging fierce as forest fires. / Frost thickening the stoop. In his debut collection, Short Histories of Light, Aidan Chafe recounts his Catholic upbringing in a household...
- Auteur:Solie, KarenSommaire:
Karen Solie takes risks with perception and language, risks that pay off in such startling ways that it's hard to believe this is a first book. Short Haul Engine is one great twist of fate and fury after another. The writing is...
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Auteur:Henderson, BrianSommaire:Nominated for the CAA Award for Poetry [Canadian Authors Association]
A renowned poet lets language ride its own musically-malleable syntax into unfamiliar regions of consciousness.
Brian Henderson has established himself...
- Auteur:Tracie, CarlSommaire:
Tracie carefully elucidates how poetry gives us a fuller perspective of the region. In these essays, we are given the essence of many poets' deeply felt conceptions of the prairie landscape transformed imaginatively into words. Many...
- Auteur:Hausner, BeatrizSommaire:
No other Canadian writer is as thoroughly conversant with the fertile tradition of surrealism as Beatriz Hausner. She bestows the imaginative energy and erotic power behind this abundantly creative way of seeing on every poem in Sew Him...
- Auteur:Collette, Jean Yves, Gay, MichelSommaire:
Voici réunis Dispositions, La Locomotive et Joker, parus au milieu des années 1980, sous le pseudonyme de Claude Raymond, et depuis longtemps introuvables. S’y ajoute un inédit : Sensations. Si ces textes nous font « constater...
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Auteur:Gould, NoraSommaire:Finalist for the 2017 Governor General’s Award for Poetry and
Shortlisted for the 2017 Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry (Writers Guild of Alberta Award)A long poem that limns the incremental mourning of living with...
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Auteur:Sinclair, SueSommaire:Shortlisted for the 2002 Gerald Lampert Award
Cumulus
These are the carriers.
Their large, mild bodies make us think
of domesticity, of milk. Mammalian
they hold the rain in their bellies, a generous... - Auteur:Guriel, JasonSommaire:
Satisfying Clicking Sound is a book that’s never afraid to make a show of itself. In his third collection, Jason Guriel gives us a quick-thinking colloquial style that segues deftly from deadpan wit to deep emotion. Like the hard-to-...
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Auteur:Mancini, DonatoSommaire:Same Diff by Donato Mancini meets at the intersection of contemporary poetry, art, and current politics. Influenced by documentary cinema such as the films of Frederic Wiseman, Dada poets, montage techniques, and a range of poets who...
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Auteur:Barkhouse, JanetSommaire:Salt Fires is a volume of poems that embrace and reflect our human consciousness: our awareness, our blindness, our Shadow, our mythologies. They invite us to look at ourselves in ways that often are disconcerting, sometimes startling....
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Auteur:Martonfi, IlonaSommaire:The poems in this collection are sculpted like carnallite crystals and come together as elegiac meditations, drawing on history, and on mythology. Beauty and pathos are wound in a tangle of exile, and find a home. Offering free verse,...
- Auteur:Drobnies, AdrienneSommaire:
Out of dried tears and burnt matter comes fertile ground; new nourishment. These are poems that transform the vocabulary of science, its language and concepts, into poems that encounter the natural world with quietly impassioned and new...
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Auteur:Wagamese, RichardSommaire:Having developed an impressive reputation for his many novels and non-fiction works, Richard Wagamese now presents a collection of stunning poems ranging over a broad landscape. He begins with an immersion in the unforgettable world...
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