On the day that David Waltner-Toews’ young daughter Rebecca gave “Mr. Fluff, that venerable stuffed dog” to her older brother, the poet learned a lesson in community building – to get what you really want you must give it away and then...
Poetry
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Auteur:Lubrin, CanisiaSommaire:The Dyzgraphxst presents seven inquiries into selfhood through the perennial figure Jejune. Polyvocal in register, the book moves to mine meanings of kinship through the wide and intimate reach of language across geographies and...
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Auteur:Bowling, TimSommaire:The Duende of Tetherball fearlessly ransacks the scrutinizing role of the past on the present; the interactions and accountabilities of ourselves and other species; the challenges and pleasures of getting older and forever striving to...
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Auteur:Momaday, N. ScottSommaire:Spanning nearly fifty years, the poems gathered here illuminate the human condition, Momaday's connection to his Kiowa roots, and his spiritual relationship to the American landscape.
- Auteur:Christle, HeatherSommaire:
Heather Christle has just lost a dear friend to suicide and now must reckon with her own depression and the birth of her first child. As she faces her grief and impending parenthood, she decides to research the act of crying: what it is...
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Auteur:Banks, ChrisSommaire:Consciousness and nostalgia in the Swipe Right age This collection attempts to find poetry, or what Gwendolyn MacEwen once called "a single symmetry," amid the chaos of 21st-century life. A powerful catalogue of loss and human...
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Auteur:Park, JeffSommaire:This striking volume effortlessly draws the reader in, exhaling the vitality of music greats such as Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, Count Basie, Miles Davis and many more. Here is a book for both jazz fans and poetry readers as it pays...
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Auteur:Neruda, PabloSommaire:Surrounded by sea, sun, and Capri's natural splendors, Neruda addressed these poems to his lover Matilde Urrutia. This complete collection has become a classic for love-struck readers around the world, passionately sensuous and...
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Auteur:Peacock, MollySommaire:In her latest collection Molly Peacock, one of Canada's most beloved poets, tells the story of her longtime psychoanalyst who returned to painting after surviving a stroke. By translating techniques of visual art into language, The...
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Auteur:Hopler, JaySommaire:Jay Hopler's second collection, a mourning song for his father, is an elegy of uproar, a careening hymn to disaster and its aftermath. In lyric poems by turns droll and desolate, Hopler documents the struggle to live in the face of...
- Auteur:Chéné, LucieSommaire:
Dans son troisième recueil, Lucie Chéné explore ces « terres fragiles » qui sont le lot de bien des êtres humains, celles de l'attente, de l'absence et de l'abandon. Elle construit un univers onirique, où le corps arrive à surmonter sa...
- Auteur:Peerbaye, SorayaSommaire:
A collection of poems partially based on the Reena Virk murder case. Virk was an Asian adolescent whose drowned body was found in the Gorge Waterway in a Victoria, BC suburb, in 1997. Some of the poems use found material from court...
- Auteur:Sylvestre, RobertSommaire:
Il peut nous sembler qu’une porte est fermée, comme un cœur peut l’être. Des mains chercheuses s’activent cependant, dans les directions contradictoires propres à l’époque. Sous la canicule – voire l’effroi – le mystère pourtant demeure...
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Auteur:Tolkien, J. R. R.Sommaire: - Auteur:Blais, MathieuSommaire:
Sylvestre est la quête d’un père qui veut transmettre à ses enfants le désir de réinvestir le pays. Une quête poétique qui cherche à établir des ponts entre ce qu’était hier et ce que sera demain. Un poème/mythe aussi, qui cherche à...
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Auteur:SHIELDS, CarolSommaire:Swann is the story of four individuals who become entwined in the life of Mary Swann, a rural Canadian poet whose authentic and unique voice is discovered only hours before her husband hacks her to pieces.Who is Mary Swann? And how...
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Auteur:AYRES, PamSommaire:Humorous anecdotes and poems by the well-loved English poet, Pam Ayres.
- Auteur:HOLLAND, PeterSommaire:
An assortment of stories, articles, poems and images by best loved authors and some newcomers.
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Auteur:Bluger, MarianneSommaire:Winner of the 1993 Archibald Lampman Award and shortlisted for the 1992 Pat Lowther Award
Summer Grass follows Marianne Bluger's previous Brick books, On Nights Like This (1984) and Gathering Wild (1988...
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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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