Shortlisted for the 2017 Raymond Souster Award
A beloved poet explores why life is so rich, even at the worst of times.
Disturbing the Buddha, Barry Dempster’s fifteenth collection, is disarmingly conversational...
Canadian poetry
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Author:Dempster, BarrySummary: - Author:Murray, GeorgeSummary:
New poems from one of Canada’s best-known poets
Where most poetry seeks contemplative quiet, as in Wordsworth’s “emotion recollected in tranquility,” Diversion asks: What happens to poetry if...
- Author:Kanapé Fontaine, NatashaSummary:
Do Not Enter My Soul in Your Shoes is a poetry collection of great sensitivity. Above all it is a cry from the heart, as if empathy and poetry were dazzled by the eruption of a volcano. Natasha Kanapé Fontaine reveals herself as a poet...
- Author:Johnstone, JimSummary:
Like the “page turned down to make another / page,” Dog Ear explores the marks we leave on a world whose social and political markers are constantly shifting. In his fourth book of poems—and most powerful work to date—Jim Johnstone...
- Author:Donlan, JohnSummary:
A sequence of fifty dated poems, four quatrains each; lyrical arguments; quick thinking amid the rational absurdity of everyday machinery; intuitive explorations of unknown energies; a diary of the unconscious.
- Author:Vermeersch, PaulSummary:
Don’t Let It End Like This Tell Them I Said Something — Paul Vermeersch’s fifth collection of poetry — is, as its title suggests, a lyrical meditation on written language and the end of civilization. It combines centos, glosas...
- Author:Bradford, DavidSummary:
An expansive, hybrid, debut collection of prose poems, self-erasures, verse, and family photo cut-ups about growing up in a racially trinary, diversely troubled family. Dream of No One but Myself is an interdisciplinary, lyrical...
- Author:Connolly, KevinSummary:
What are we thinking at any given moment? What happens to a thought as that moment, on its way to oblivion, collides with its successor? Rambunctious, witty, joyous, and bittersweet, drift is an investigation conducted by a truly...
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- Author:Zalitis, DominiqueSummary:
Du frimas sur la mer, c'est le parcours d'une vie comme une grande traversée, là où le vent s'exprime dans tout ce qui meurt et qui renaît. Affrontant vents et marées, avec des larmes de mer dans les veines, la poète retourne à la...
- Author:Czaga, KaylaSummary:
In the title poem of award-winning poet Kayla Czaga's sophomore collection, the speaker is suspended between knowledge and experience - hovering there confidently before the world plunges her into the frigid waters of adult life. Czaga...
- Author:Faber, AlydaSummary:
Is this life a route or a destination? Alyda Faber's assured début examines the ties that bind us to one another and to the Earth we inhabit, and asks the question, What is left of us when we are gone? In the quiet and unsettling poems...
- Author:Almon, BertSummary:
Winner of the 1995 Writers Guild of Alberta Award for Poetry
Bert Almon’s poems are centred in local, apparently unremarkable moments which are addressed with such a fine, ironic eye that they suddenly yield their innate comedy,...
- Author:Ritland, LauraSummary:
East and West, Laura Ritland's astonishing debut, is a book of visions. These are roving poems drawn to defamiliarizing points of view, and are exquisitely attentive to the way the world exceeds our senses ("Cloud deduced...
- Author:Verret, AiméeSummary:
Le corps d’Isadora n’est plus. Si l’on peut survivre à un accident de la route, on n’échappe pas aux multiples deuils qui ponctuent l’existence, comme à ces nuits qu’il faut traverser, seul ou à deux. On tire une ficelle, on se tricote...
- Author:Woodcock, PatrickSummary:
A poetic journal looks at life in a war-torn country. After two years spent in the Kurdish North of Iraq, Patrick Woodcock has returned with his eighth collection of poetry, Echo Gods and Silent Mountains. Resisting both...
- Author:Conn, JanSummary:
Mature poems with their finger on the pulse of the dark side of the present.
Reading Edge Effects, Jan Conn’s masterful eighth collection, is a little like looking at Edward Burtynsky’s photographs of real industrial...
- Author:Epp, JoanneSummary:
Home is like “a memory of a lost photograph,” elusive but vivid. A place of tenuous security, “one claw on the screen” can threaten the entire structure. Joanne Epp, in her first collection of poetry, Eigenheim, shapes and reshapes the...
- Author:Avasilichioaei, OanaSummary:
Poet and intermedia artist Oana Avasilichioaei's Eight Track is a transliterary exploration of traces. Sound recordings, surveillance cameras, desert geoglyphs, drone operators, refugee interviews, animal imprints, and audio...
- Author:Pacey, MichaelSummary:
In Electric Affinities, Michael Pacey's second collection, everyday household items become points of departure into wonder -- a handsaw becomes a “bird hooded, strung with jesses, strops with its beak.” A cup becomes “a tool for...
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