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Canadian poetry

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    Rhodes, Shane
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    A vital collection that interrogates the stories of the dead white men that litter our histories and landscapes. Juxtaposing the seemingly benign names of Europeans that permeate our geographies with the details of their so-called...

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    Gottfriedson, Garry
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    Follow Garry Gottfriedson in this new collection of combative poems as he compels us and Heaven to listen to the challenges facing First Nation communities today. Employing many of the Secwepemc (Shuswap) images and stories,...

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    Atwood, Margaret
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    The collection of a lifetime from the bestselling novelist and poet. By turns moving, playful and wise, the poems gathered in Dearly are about absences and endings, ageing and retrospection, but also about gifts and renewals. They...

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    Bélanger, Paul
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    On nage dans les profondeurs des déblais, noyé, emmuré, enterré, suivant la lueur lointaine d'une vie sans blessure, une vie au-dessus et au-delà, une sorte de conjuration de la mort par l'appel des mots, des figures ouvrant au temps...

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    Giroux, Robert
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    Le recueil est articulé autour de trois propos distincts : le vieillissement et la mort qui rôdent et menacent les proches, le désir d’ouvrir les frontières du quotidien et l’idée que la vraie vie ne peut être qu’en soi. La dernière...

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    Clarke, Laura
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    A debut collection with a fresh approach

    Decline of the Animal Kingdom investigates modern constructs of domesticity, freedom, wilderness, and artificiality to paint a portrait of what it means to be...

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    Berrouët-Oriol, Robert
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    EXTRAIT et voici que bateleur des sens je te recouds rituelle grammaire sous les plages secrètes de ma langue et me profile neuve cuvée d’incises à ta semblance voyelles nues la gorge tatouée de syllabes crépues et par tracées de...

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    O'Grady, Thomas
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    War, Pestilence, Famine, Death. Was I deaf / to the headline roar of my unwieldy load? Engaging with the inevitability of change and flux, Thomas O'Grady's poems grapple with themes of death and rebirth, of loss and resiliency...

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    Braune, Sean
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    Text surrounds us. Text is everywhere, all the time, and the contemporary world is a codex to be deciphered and disassembled. In Dendrite Balconies, Sean Braune harvests the language that surrounds us-pieces and shards from other...

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    Burdick, Alice, Porco, Alessandro
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    Deportment is a selection of poems – surreal, cerebral, and defiant – by Alice Burdick. Burdick examines the dangers of dogma, women’s rights, and environmental degradation in biting satires, moving elegies, and anti-sentimental lyrics...

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    Delisle, Jennifer Bowering
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    Deriving explores infertility, motherhood, and family, while troubling the colonial legacies of the English language and Canadian identity. A feminist exploration of ancestral and etymological origins, Jennifer Bowering Delisle's...

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    Prophète, Emmelie
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    Emmelie Prophète fait partie des générations de femmes auteures haïtiennes contemporaines comme Yanick Lahens, Kettly Mars, Evelyne Trouillot, Edwidge Danticat. Extrait de la préface: « J'ai rencontré les poèmes dans la...

  • Author:
    Owen, Catherine
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    A moving, lyrical, and original collection from an award-winning poet

    Designated Mourner is a collection of elegies for an unconventional spouse and artistic collaborator, lost to addiction at a young age. These...

  • Author:
    Foucher, Carolanne
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    Je suis un fantôme. Je suis au milieu d'une grande sœur et d'un petit frère. Mes notes à l'école c'est B, des fois B. Je suis pas tellement populaire, mais pas tellement l'inverse non plus. Je suis toujours quelque chose entre les deux...

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    Deviant traces a trajectory of queer self-discovery from childhood to adulthood, examining love, fear, grief, and the violence that men are capable of in intimate same-sex relationships. Richly engaged with the tangible and experiential...

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    Lockhart, D. A.
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    D.A. Lockhart's stunning and subversive fourth collection gives us the words, thoughts, and experiences of an Anishinaabe guy from Central Ontario and the manner in which he interacts with central aspects and icons of settler...

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    Nicholson, Owain
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    Digsite draws on Nicholson's experience working in the Alberta oil sands and arboreal forest, taking an archaeological lens to its subject, and in this way, reimagines tens of thousands of years of human existence. These poems grow...

  • Author:
    Margoshes, Dave
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    A collection of Dave Margoshes poetry.

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    Twist, Arielle
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    In her powerful debut collection of poetry, Arielle Twist unravels the complexities of human relationships after death and metamorphosis. In these spare yet powerful poems, she explores, with both rage and tenderness, the parameters of...

  • Author:
    Ross, Diane-Isha
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    Il y avait deux filles, l’une au ras de la ville, l’autre dans le puits, et chacune voyait ses étoiles, et la nuit protégeait leur privauté. Ça aurait pu bien tourner, mais la peur et la peur d’avoir mal de soi blessant l’autre et...

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