With vicious wit, K. I. Press pries open the intimacies of our lives in her collection of poetry, Exquisite Monsters. Fearless and weird, she splays open motherhood and mourning, laying them cheek by jowl next to biomechanical androids...
Canadian poetry
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Author:Press, KarenSummary: - Author:Rees, RobertaSummary:
Co-winner of the 1992 Gerald Lampert Award. Winner of the 1992 Writers Guild of Alberta Award for Poetry
Eyes Like Pigeons, Roberta Rees' long poem, comes back, always, to this: "… Thi' in Vietnamese means poetry." Thi,...
- Author:Chenard, SylvieSummary:
Le texte est ici offert pour lui-même, à la faveur des mots et leur choc de culture et d'histoire. Une poésie de survivance et d'espoir s'intrique aux actualités quotidiennes, urbaines ou nord-côtières. Sa voix n...
- Author:Sheppy, NikkiSummary:
Sense and sensuality. Body and embodiment. Fail Safe links human senses to the fecund world, examining plant and human bodies on the inside and the outside. Linguistically flourishing, sonically dense, this language is tactile. Dynamic...
- Author:Showler, SuzannahSummary:
Poetry of ambivalence, humour, and doubt that belies a kind of optimism. Dumpster fires outside discount stores and rotting whale carcasses; optical illusions and memento mori--all 'coming to you direct, / by way of this Rube Goldberg...
- Author:Thom, Kai ChengSummary:
“Required reading for the untamed soul . . . reminded me how to love others and myself.”—Glennon Doyle, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Untamed. A transformative collection of intimate and lyrical love letters that offer a path...
- Author:Sorbie, AnneSummary:
Falling Backwards Into Mirrorsis a book that merges poetry and memoir. At the same time, it is a collection grounded in the body, naked and spare, wounded and wonderful. Through vivid, sensual images that evoke feeling, the speaker...
- Author:Cain, StephenSummary:
False Friends is the first full-length poetry collection from Stephen Cain in more than ten years. In it, he takes inspiration from the linguistic term "false friends"—two words from different languages that appear to be related, but...
- Author:Bifford, DarrenSummary:
Poems about commitment and catastrophe, from a voice of intense lyrical skepticism and wonderful tonal mobility.
- Author:Tysdal, Daniel ScottSummary:
In Fauxccasional Poems, Daniel Scott Tysdal imagines himself into poetic voices not his own, writing to commemorate events that never occurred, for the posterity of alternative universes — and the delight of our own. From the reign of...
- Author:Besner, LindaSummary:
I learned the secret of serenity by waterboarding daffodils. My Buddha is landfill. My mantra choked from a bluebird’s neck. It’s ruthless, the pursuit of happiness. Eighteen seconds have elapsed. This collection is a universe where...
- Author:Brossard, Nicole, De Lotbinière-Harwood, SusanneSummary:
Invited to a quiet Swiss château by the enigmatic Tatiana Beaujeu Lehmann, Anne begins to slowly write a novel in a language that is not hers, a language that makes meaning foreign and keeps her alert to the world and its fiery horizon...
- Author:Chubbs, BoydSummary:
A figure journeys through his Old City, speaking sonnets - some from memory, some from contemporary condition and relationship with his place. He has no way to return home. He is in exile.
- Author:Eng, JeanSummary:
Festival of All Souls explores the experience of an Asian woman born in Canada. Although neither fully rooted in one or the other, the influence of two different cultures allows heritage, gender and values to nonetheless, enrich a...
- Author:Domanski, DonSummary:
Governor General's Award-winning poet Don Domanski's posthumous last collection once again melds perception-expanding environmental poetry and metaphysics into a seamless, moving lyric whole.
- Author:Schönmaier, EleonoreSummary:
A (re)creation of the surreality and altered time within deep states of grieving, Field Guide to the Lost Flower of Crete juxtaposes sorrow with fragmentary unapologetic joy. Eleonore Schönmaier forges compelling symphonic resonances...
- Author:Lundy, RandySummary:
Following his acclaimed Blackbird Song, Randy Lundy's fourth collection of poetry modulates the trauma of remembering with the greater spiritual affirmations offered by the natural world. Field Notes for the Self is a series of dark...
- Author:Benning, SheriSummary:
Field Requiem bears witness to the violence inherent in the shift to industrialised farming in prairie Canada. Sheri Benning's poems chart the ways in which a way of life collapses, the world of the family farm, even as the speaker...
- Author:Schellenberg, AngelineSummary:
Following the deaths of her Mennonite grandparents, Angeline Schellenberg began exploring in poetry their influence on her life. Her elegiac love letter to them articulates her grief against the backdrop of their involuntary emigration...
- Author:Lavoie, Daniel, Therrien, Joanne, Le Gall, HuguetteSummary:
La fi nutilité m’habite…Pourquoi ceci me diras-tu?Pour la poésie du futile, la beauté de l’éphémère…Pour la beauté infi nie de la tristesse.Pour moi pour toi qui sommes à la fois rien,à la fois tout.
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