A moving collection of poetry about navigating mid-life, full of humour and wit, from acclaimed novelist Farzana Doctor. This debut poetry collection from acclaimed novelist Farzana Doctor is both an intimate deep dive and a humorous...
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Auteur:Doctor, FarzanaSommaire: - Auteur:McIntire, GabrielleSommaire:
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...
- Auteur:Namir, HasanSommaire:
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...
- Auteur:King-Campbell, SharonSommaire:
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...
- 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:Dawe, TomSommaire:
***CANADA BOOK AWARD WINNER***For almost fifty years, Tom Dawe has stood as one of the most respected and admired poets in Newfoundland. This definitive, necessary collection spans five decades of poetic achievement, reprinting each of...
- Auteur:Liebich, RayyaSommaire:
This poetry collection travels through a daughter's childhood memories in Montreal, her mother's homeland of Lebanon, and the dark realities of grief across borders. Min Hayati uncovers the well of sorrow and the depth of love...
- Auteur:Winsor, MichaelSommaire:
"[Lost in Newfoundland] works like the perfect photo album of the perfect trip to Newfoundland—one not limited by vacation time, and in which we see all the beauties promised to us by the advocates for Newfoundland tourism. If you...
- Auteur:Pelley, Rhonda, O'Leary, SheilaghSommaire:
Sheilagh O’Leary and Rhonda Pelley spent two summers travelling from Bonavista Bay to the Great Northern Peninsula and to the communities of the south coast. The women they interviewed shared unique life stories filled with hard work,...
- Auteur:Sinaee, BardiaSommaire:
In Intruder, acclaimed poet Bardia Sinaee explores with vivid and precise language themes of encroachment in contemporary life.Bemused and droll, paranoid and demagogic, Sinaee's much-anticipated debut collection presents a world...
- Auteur:Actis, AndreaSommaire:
'Please stay with me, please stay here, please cause poltergeists in my stupid apartment...' Late in the evening of December 13, 2007, Andrea Actis found her father, Jeff, facedown dead in her East Vancouver apartment. So...
- Auteur:Rak, JulieSommaire:
The race to climb Everest catapulted mountain climbing, with its accompanying images of conquest and sport, into the public sphere on a global scale. But as a metaphor for the pinnacle of human achievement, mountaineering remains the...
- Auteur:Germaine, MarySommaire:
In her debut collection, Congratulations, Rhododendrons, award-winning poet Mary Germaine offers love poems to an insistently unlovely world.Through poems that speak to plastic bags and drones as much as they admire roses and the moon,...
- 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...
- Auteur:Vautour, KatieSommaire:
Katie Vatour’s extraordinary debut collection is an eclectic examination of the space where humans and animals meet, where migratory patterns encounter commercial flights, and birds appear as fishermen, security guards, and street...
