Winner of the 2003 Griffin Poetry Prize and of the 2003 CAA Jack Chalmers Poetry Award and Globe 100 book for 2003
“…Margaret Avison is a national treasure. For many decades she has forged a way to write, against the grain, some...
Poetry
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Auteur:Glenn, Lorri NeilsenSommaire:Longlisted for the 2008 ReLit Awards
Humane ethnographer, passionate memoirist, lyricist of the acute moment, Lorri Neilsen Glenn explores memory as legacy.
Lorri Neilsen Glenn’s poems welcome the reader into a place where...
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Auteur:Doyle Péan, LauraSommaire:Le livre Deux amoureuses se séparent. Seule dans son appartement, entre les livres et les souvenirs, une jeune femme apprivoise la vie, au fil des jours. Écrit sous forme de journal, Cœur yoyo, tel un rite de passage, est à la fois une...
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Auteur:Bryden, Diana FitzgeraldSommaire:The early car’s mine.
I leave before the day
puts hardware on;
ride east all the way.I leave before the day
abandons slow calm.
Ride east all the way,
and now a stormabandons...
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Auteur:Bennett, JonathanSommaire:“As accomplished as Jonathan Bennett is at using language, he’s never fussy or precious about it. With his exacting, contemporary voice, part colourful reporter, part reluctant witness, his lines gain their effect by serving experience...
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Auteur:Howard, VickySommaire:"Howard's snowmen, Victorian-styled gardens and holiday scenes appear on some of the nation's bestselling giftwraps, paper products, throws, and clothing." — The Kansas City Star
Artist Vicky Howard creates such lovable snowmen,...
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Auteur:Gottfriedson, GarrySommaire:Chaos Inside Thunderstorms draws the audience into the centre of the tumultuous political, socio/economical and historical reality of the First Nations experience in Canada today. It is poetic expression that examines leadership,...
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Auteur:Dickinson, AdamSommaire:Shortlisted for the 2003 Henry Kreisel Award for Best First Book (Writers Guild of Alberta Award)
Without you,
I have taken to drawing maps
on the backs of photographs.
On the coast in a raincoat
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Auteur:Kemick, Richard KellySommaire:At one moment, a pure abstraction; at the next, an incontrovertible presence of hooves, antlers, and fur. The beating heart of this assured début by Richard Kelly Kemick is the Porcupine caribou herd of the western Arctic. In Caribou...
- Auteur:Deerchild, RosannaSommaire:
"Calling Down the Sky" is a poetry collection that describes deep personal experiences and post generational effects of the Canadian Aboriginal Residential School confinements in the 1950's when thousands of First Nations...
- Auteur:Prior, MichaelSommaire:
Acerbic, moving, and formally astonishing, Michael Prior's second collection explores the enduring impact of the Japanese internment upon his family legacy and his mixed-race identity.
Canada-Japan Literary Award, Winner
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« Dans Branchez-vous! et autres poèmes biscornus, François Gravel s'interroge sur les curiosités de la langue française et s'en amuse. Il va même jusqu'à mélanger l'anglais au français pour s'entortiller...
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Auteur:Truscott, MarkSommaire:Careful attention reveals that, even in moments that seem insignificant, our minds are constantly navigating disjunctions among registers of experience. Our intellect silently reminds our eyes that the car that appears to be moving...
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Auteur:Boucaud, S. I.Sommaire:The stories and poetry in this book came to the writer between the years 2013 and 2017. She believes that stories have the power to disclose, heal, lead, and, for many, to transform. Her stories have been described as sometimes loving,...
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Auteur:Chatterjee, AyeshaSommaire:A collection of poems reflecting insights and experiences gained from the author's cultural roots and travels and homes in Asia, Europe and Canada.
- Auteur:Robertson, LisaSommaire:
From the author of The Baudelaire Fractal, a poetry classic, with new work In 2004, boldly original poet Lisa Robertson published a chapbook, Rousseau's Boat, poems culled from years of notebooks that are, nevertheless, by no means...
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Auteur:Nelson, MaggieSommaire:Maggie Nelson presents 240 short pieces, all on the color blue, that offer surprising insights into the emotional depths that make us most human.
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Auteur:di Michele, MarySommaire:A masterwork from one of Canada’s most important poets
Referencing the post-war neorealist film by Vittorio De Sica, Mary di Michele’s Bicycle Thieves commemorates her Italian past and her life in Canada through...
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Auteur:Rolfe, RobSommaire:Mudtown was a working-class neighbourhood tightly wedged between once busy docks, factories and the escarpment along the east shore of Owen Sound Bay. It was regularly inundated with mud during spring rains. Beyond Mudtown, Rob Rolfe’s...
- Auteur:Grimes, NikkiSommaire:
This thought-provoking companion to Nikki Grimes' Coretta Scott King Award-winning Bronx Masquerade shows the capacity poetry has to express ideas and feelings, and connect us with ourselves and others. Darrian dreams of writing for the...
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