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    Del Rey, Lana
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    THE HIGHLY ANTICIPATED SPOKEN WORD POETRY COLLECTION FROM LANA DEL REY, VIOLET BENT BACKWARDS OVER THE GRASS " Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass is the title poem of the book and the first poem I wrote of many. Some of which...

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    Phaneuf, Richard
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    Fille d’eau et de sable, sur les rives de ce long fleuve, libre d’espaces, tu imaginais tes contes de fée. Le bonheur ! Tu as couru dans les prés parmi les fleurs, les ronces, les blés. Vient un temps où on désapprend le rêve et se...

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    Williamson, Alex
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    Very Bright, Almost Pretty, by Alexander Williamson explores the largely under-represented impact of Cystic Fibrosis, a life-threatening disease affecting over four thousand Canadians, and their families. The poems wander through...

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    BULL, Margaret
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    A collection of verse from the Eastern Goldfields of Western Australia.

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    Reddy, Srikanth
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    Simultaneously funny and frightful, Srikanth Reddy's Underworld Lit is a multiverse quest through various cultures' realms of the dead. Couched in a literature professor's daily mishaps with family life and his sudden...

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    McIntire, Gabrielle
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    Inspired by mystical traditions, birdwatching, tree planting, ethics, neuropsychology, and quantum physics, Gabrielle McIntire's poems draw us in with their passionate attention to what it means to be human in a still-wondrous...

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    Namir, Hasan
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    Dear Child Once upon a time Your baba fell in love with your dad We got married and dreamt of having a baby A roller coaster of emotions and feelings We were always hopeful Lambda Literary and Stonewall Book Award-winner Hasan Namir...

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    Bacon, Joséphine
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    Avec Joséphine Bacon commence une nouvelle histoire de la poésie québécoise. Prix des libraires 2019 Finaliste au Indigenous Voices Award 2019 Uiesh - Quelque part est un recueil bilingue français-innu aimum. Quelque part, une...

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    Blythe, Ali
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    Shortlisted, Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. Part roving eye, part devotion, you wander hotel corridors, entering rooms not quite yours, trying on clothes, blankets, skins. Arguing with the body's limits and its trickery, you are always...

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    Paddon, Susan
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    Winner of the J.M. Abraham Poetry Award (East Coast Literary Awards)

    Chekhov’s work and life fuse with a daughter’s caring for her dying mother in this powerful debut.

    Two Tragedies in 429 Breaths is a book-length...

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    Guénette, Daniel
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    Le doute apparaît ici comme un antidote à la folie meurtrière de ceux qui imposent leurs certitudes. Un certain dieu semble avoir la vie dure et s’ingénier, à travers ses prétendus représentants, à rendre l’existence des hommes tout à...

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    Archambault, Renée
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    La prise en charge personnelle, le dépassement de soi: c'est le leitmotiv permanent de l'auteure de Toutes les pages de ma vie n'ont pas été écrites. Et ce n'est pas à 60 ans que Renée Archambault compte changer. C...

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    Chiasson, Herménégilde, Elder, Jo-Anne, Chiasson, Herménégilde
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    First published in 1974, Mourir à Scoudouc emerged out of a period of cultural awakening. Chiasson's poems denounced the narrow limitations of the past and traced the lines of a fresh collective vision. The poems were lyrical,...

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    Walcott, Derek
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    Tiepolo's Hound joins the quests of two Caribbean men. Camille Pissarro, born in 1830, leaves his native St. Thomas to follow his vocation as a painter in Paris. The poet himself hunts for a detail -- "a slash of pink on the inner thigh...

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    AYRES, Pam
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    These new poems are as outrageous, as wildly funny and as enormously enjoyable as those that made the author so vastly popular.

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    Belcourt, Billy-Ray
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    Part manifesto, part memoir, This Wound is a World is an invitation to 'cut a hole in the sky to world inside.' Billy-Ray Belcourt issues a call to turn to love and sex to understand how Indigenous peoples shoulder sadness and pain like...

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    Neveu, Chantal
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    In this stunning long poem, Chantal Neveu draws from the lexicons of science, art, revolution and corporeal movement to forge intense and extended rhythms that invoke the elements and spaces making up our world. This is poetry capable...

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    King-Campbell, Sharon
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    Illuminating, poised, and wholly original, the poems of Sharon King-Campbell's This Is How It Isrange across the planet from New Zealand to Thailand to Newfoundland, gathering along the way voices both historical and mythological in a...

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    Benning, Sheri
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    Winner of the 2007 Anne Szumigalski Award for Poetry and the 2007 City of Saskatoon Prize and nominated for Book of the Year (Saskatchewan Book Awards) and longlisted for the 2008 ReLit Awards

    Fierce and delicate poems from a...

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    Donawa, Wendy
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    An elegiac and incisive debut that blends poems of social justice
    with poems of ordinary life

    In her first collection, Thin Air of the Knowable, the physical landscapes of Wendy Donawa’s life—West Coast, Caribbean...

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