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...
Poetry
- Auteur:SHIELDS, CarolSommaire:
- 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.
- 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...
- 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...
- Auteur:Cadsby, HeatherSommaire:
By turns funny, frank, mysterious, and heartbreaking, Standing in the Flock of Connections, Heather Cadsby's fifth collection of poetry, is one hundred proof associative thought. These poems testify to the human mind's...
- Auteur:Bourdon, ValérieSommaire:
Stand by est le mouvement d’amour d’une voix qui cherche à approcher le corps du père, cerné ici à partir de ses failles et de ses fatigues. Ces moments de désœuvrement sont recueillis comme de précieux instants où quelque chose se...
- Auteur:Hynes, MaureenSommaire:
Maureen Hynes, in her fifth book of poetry, speaks tenderly yet vehemently about the threatened worlds that concern her. From Toronto, where she lives and walks the city's afflicted watershed, she turns her attention to the near...
- Auteur:Zwicky, JanSommaire:
Songs for Relinquishing the Earth contains many poems of praise and grief for the imperilled earth drawing frequently on Jan Zwicky's experience as a musician and philosopher and on the landscapes of the prairies and rural Ontario...
- Auteur:Bourque, OlivierSommaire:
Sommeils prend forme dans un univers de soleil et de plage, non loin des bruits de la ville, teinté de rêveries d’enfants et des menus détails d’une fin d’été heureuse.
- Auteur:Cull, KerriSommaire:
This collection focuses on physical experience and contemplates the beauty of everyday life – the objects, the stories, and the people that drift in and out. It finds the extraordinary in the ordinary.
- Auteur:Shaw, KevinSommaire:
Stately and majestic, yet scuffed with wear and disillusion, the poems of Smaller Hours mount the sky like columns and fora of some archaic ruin. Through these ancient halls, Kevin Shaw tracks Eros, clearing away the rubble and...
- Auteur:Hertwig, BenjaminSommaire:
Benjamin Hertwig’s debut collection of poetry, Slow War, is at once an account of contemporary warfare and a personal journey of loss and the search for healing. It stands in the tradition of Wilfred Owen’s “Dulce et Decorum Est” and...
- Auteur:Hussain, NasserSommaire:
Think Kierkegaard in a spacesuit, Kubrik in a Left Bank café.Like the neutrino observatory of its title, Midday at the Super-Kamiokande seeks "glimpses of the obscure" to carve out meaning, alternately a resistance to...
- Auteur:Dumont, AlbertSommaire:
The ancestors, living at the time of European contact had a way with words. Poetry spilled effortlessly from their lips because the spirit of the land guided their words. I take seriously my belief that medicine of extraordinary healing...
- Auteur:Lorde, AudreSommaire:
In this charged collection of fifteen essays and speeches, influential poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde takes on sexism, racism, ageism, homophobia, and class, and propounds social difference as a vehicle for action and change.
- Auteur:Nelligan, Émile, Di Saverio, MarcSommaire:
A legend of 19th century French Canadian poetry, Émile Nelligan was only 16 when he fell under the influence of Baudelaire and Rimbaud and began writing taut, confidently surrealistic poems, shot through self-lacerating melancholy....
- Auteur:Kreuter, AaronSommaire:
A satiric and searing collection of poetry obsessed with television, oceans, Jewish history, and time. Nature isn't dying it's simply revising its target audience In Shifting Baseline Syndrome , Aaron Kreuter asks the hard questions:...
- Auteur:Heighton, StevenSommaire:
This collection of new and previously published poems by Steven Heighton, author of the Governor General's Literary Award winner The Waking Comes Late, showcases a defining lyric poet of his generation. Selected Poems 1983-2020 is...
- Auteur:Simpson, DanielSommaire:
Poets and identical twins Daniel and David Simpson were born blind in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, in 1952. Each has recently released a book of poems that speaks openly and frankly about their adventures attending a school for the blind...