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.
Canadian poetry
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Author:Lavoie, Daniel, Therrien, Joanne, Le Gall, HuguetteSummary: - Author:Paré, ArleenSummary:
Governor General's Award-winning poet Arleen Paré combines the story of two first best friends with questions of the mystery of cosmic first cause. The poems in First, Arleen Paré's seventh collection, search for a long-lost...
- Author:Phillips, WendySummary:
When Natalie moves to a new high school she befriends 3 unwitting victims into her spider-web of manipulations, lies and deceit. Through the poetry and assignments of an English class we glimpse the world of the 4 teens. Natalie, whose...
- Author:Holmes, NancySummary:
How do we learn to be where we live? How can a 21st-century mind, saturated with the culture and metaphors of contemporary life, connect to the natural world that surrounds us? In Nancy Holmes’ new book of poetry, these questions are...
- Author:Roorda, JulieSummary:
Bodies float in rapture, and in death, transported by waves of pleasure, or lapped by failure, fallen, having flown too close to the sun. The poems in this collection are at once macabre and ecstatic, probing the body by means of...
- Author:Ens, SarahSummary:
Sarah Ens's second book of poetry traces connections between the Russian Mennonite diaspora and disrupted migratory patterns of grassland birds, returning to Manitoba's endangered tallgrass prairie in a meditation on the...
- Author:Resnick, PhilipSummary:
Philip Resnick’s Footsteps of the Past constitutes a powerful set of reflections on the modern human condition. The book contains poems dealing with memory, recognition, and the slow passage of time, while others meditate on the deep...
- Author:Ellenbogen, BailaSummary:
In Footsteps on the Ceiling, Baila Ellenbogen explores the overlapping planes of existence her experience and intellectual curiosity have led her to inhabit, reliving childhood memories while questions of faith and domestic...
- Author:Czaga, KaylaSummary:
"For Your Safety Please Hold On" is a truly remarkable first poetry collection from debut talent Kayla Czaga. Her poems are already making waves--several from this collection have received award attention, including: "The Fiddlehead"'s...
- Author:Crate, JoanSummary:
Foreign Homes, Joan Crate's second book of poems, explores domesticity and dislocation, where what was thought to be home becomes alien, and where the alien is, piece by piece, made into home -- often in such simple, physical acts...
- Author:Pipar, RosetteSummary:
Comme autant de mémoires surgissant de chaque instant, les mots se fragmentent et forment le kaléidoscope de la Vie. Un regard, une émotion, un souvenir ravivent l'impression forte nichée au fond de l'âme attendant l'heure d'imbiber le...
- Author:Daniel Groleau LandrySummary:
FRAGMENTS DE CIELS Daniel Groleau Landry ce petit gars-là qui avait sérieusement besoin de thérapie à la place a découvert le sexe, la drogue et la motherfucking poésie il s'en remet toujours à ce jour Lauréat et...
- Author:Gernes, Ulrikka S., Friesen, Patrick, Brask, PerSummary:
Finalist for the 2016 Griffin Poetry Prize
The English translation of new work from a celebrated Danish poet.
Frayed Opus for Strings & Wind Instruments is a collection of poems that zooms in and out of places...
- Author:Ganz, RhondaSummary:
In her debut collection, Rhonda Ganz, brazenly mixes darks with lights and dares to peg out the quirky and bizarre, both real and imagined, with all seams showing. From spontaneous combustion to suicide, from pterodactyls to pumpkin pie...
- Author:Blanchard, CassandraSummary:
Dissecting herself and the life she once knew living a transient life that included time spent in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside as a bonafide drug addict, Blanchard writes plainly about violence, drug use and sex work in Fresh Pack of...
- Author:Toone, JohnSummary:
From Out of Nowhere explores how cities have changed the landscape for prairie poetry. The poems find the intersections where nature speaks through cowboys, hunters, fishers, farmers, and businessmen. These voices are captured in...
- Author:Dragisic, PeggySummary:
A sequence exploring the bittersweet corners of motherhood.
- Author:Groulx, David A.Summary:
"With a sre voice, Groulx, an Anishnaabe writer, artistically weaves together the experiences of Indigenous peoples in settler Canada with those of the people of Palestine, revealing a shared understanding of colonial pasts and presents...
- Author:Maguire, ShannonSummary:
fur(l) parachute claims as its surrogate the Old English poem “Wulf and Eadwacer.” Declining from a mutant echo of this nineteen-line fragment that appears in the tenth century Exeter manuscript as a text that might be a riddle, or an...
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A collection of short stories and poems to provide a look at the future through open doors. Not the future that is formed in the minds of science fiction writers but the individual and personal future that awaits each of us.
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