Carol Harvey Steski's tenacious and unapologetic debut, rump + flank, explores the body in nature's many incarnations: human, animal, plant, microbe, even chemical. The result is a fantastical poetic work that sheds light on what bodies...
Canadian poetry
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Auteur:Steski, Carol HarveySommaire: - Auteur:Kavanagh, BasmaSommaire:
This book length poem comprises three major interwoven threads: Ahli, an auto/biographical thread about my Lebanese heritage; Astura, a grim tale linking climate change and the oppression of women, and Ana, a reflection on identity,...
- Auteur:Nason, JimSommaire:
In a world where upside-down politics dovetails with the carnivalesque, a love triangle unfolds between a belligerent Rooster, a happy-go-lucky meth-addicted Dog, and a gender-fluid Crow. Nason's sixth poetry collection goes to the...
- Auteur:Scott, CamSommaire:
Both a daybook of anti-capitalist ideation and a homoerotic reinvention of the prairie long poem, this unique debut resonates with a love of language and experiment. Written from within the strictures of the working day, the book's...
- Auteur:Poirier, ThelmaSommaire:
Thelma Poirier writes of the land and its inhabitants – plant, animal, and human – in vivid and loving detail, with deep feeling and authenticity. In poetry that is spare, strong, and unsentimental, she describes the rancher’s life, a...
- Auteur:Zwicky, JanSommaire:
The poems in this book arise from Robinson's Crossing - the place where the railway ends and European settlers arriving in northern Alberta had to cross the Pembina River and advance by wagon or on foot. How have we crossed into this...
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Auteur:Di Nardo, AntonySommaire:A turbulent, celebratory flight from an accomplished witness and journeyman.
Antony Di Nardo’s third collection of poems occupies the air between Canada and Lebanon, viewer and painting, victim and triggerman, reader and page....
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Auteur:Vermette, KatherenaSommaire:Governor General's Award-winning Métis poet and acclaimed novelist Katherena Vermette's second work of poetry, river woman, examines and celebrates love as postcolonial action. Here love is defined as a force of reclamation and repair...
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Auteur:Lee, DennisSommaire:Deluxe redesign of an aching solo situated at the mid-point of a long, melodious career.
On the occasion of the press’s 40th anniversary, Brick Books is proud to present the third of six new editions of classic books from our...
- Auteur:Young, DeannaSommaire:
Poems that unfold like liturgy, confronting old violence with a trembling, dignified restraint.
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Auteur:Langhorse, BarbaraSommaire:How do you rebuild a life? In this unsentimental collection of poems, Barbara Langhorst revisits a violent personal tragedy through startling imagery that rends even as it heals. Restless White Fields is unique, unexpected, and...
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Auteur:Moritz, A. F.Sommaire:Shortlisted for the 2000 Governor General's Award for Poetry
From the outskirts of the fevered empire, and the embers that were its heart, Moritz sings us to our selves -- our failures, our cruelties, our stupidities, and beauty...
- Auteur:Murakami, SachikoSommaire:
Render (v.tr.): to submit, as for consideration; to give or make available; to give what is due or owed; to give in return, or retribution; to surrender; to yield. To represent; to perform an interpretation of; to arrange. To express in...
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Auteur:Driedger, DianeSommaire:In this compelling collection of poems and art, the colour of living is red with excitement, pain, sunsets, blood, and tropical flowers. Along the way, the poet paints herself into the works of Frida Kahlo, Vincent Van Gogh, Claude...
- Auteur:Driedger, DianeSommaire:
In this compelling collection of poems and art, the colour of living is red with excitement, pain, sunsets, blood, and tropical flowers. Along the way, the poet paints herself into the works of Frida Kahlo, Vincent Van Gogh, Claude...
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Auteur:Hamon, TracySommaire:In a series of poems that move between narrative and lyric, the personas of Austrian artist Egon Schiele and his mistress/model Valerie Neuzil are revealed in exquisite detail. Dividing the work into three sections, equal energy is...
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Auteur:Guttman, NaomiSommaire:Winner of the 1992 A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry (QSPELL, now the Quebec Writers Federation) and shortlisted for the 1991 Pat Lowther Award
Naomi Guttman's first collection of poems marks the appearance of a deeply emotional,...
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Auteur:Priest, RobertSommaire:Reverse engineering the word, meme splicing, morpheme replacement therapy, phonetic modifications: these are some of the techniques in play throughout Reading the Bible Backwards, the lyrical thought experiments that make up...
- Auteur:Laverdure, BertrandSommaire:
J'ai souffert, c’est banal. Mon stage personnel chez les humains se déroule sans tragédie, pour le moment. Néanmoins, la douleur sans plaie existe, la douleur des craquements post-relationnels existe. En tant que stagiaire perpétuel...
- Auteur:Bradley, NicholasSommaire:
Rain Shadow is a collection of poetry that explores the fraught relationship between the natural world and humans yearning to connect with something greater than themselves. The poems range through destabilized lives and landscapes,...
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