Naturalist, ornithologist, avocational archaeologist and poet, Winnipeg’s Dr. Robert W. Nero has authored nine books dealing with his amazing spectrum of interests. Growing Old Together is the newest collection of poetry by this gifted...
Canadian poetry
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Author:Nero, Robert W.Summary: - Author:Christie, EvieSummary:
Gutted, Evie Christie’s powerful and harrowing debut, pulses with the rhythms of life, loss, and love. Energized with the language of now and the wide scope of popular culture, while dwelling in Yeats’ “foul rag and bone shop...
- Author:Wheeler, SueSummary:
In her third collection of poems, Sue Wheeler writes of the ephemeral with an eye trained on the eternal questions. “Who are you?” she asks at the outset of her search for fresh and more telling names for the human in the lush natural...
- Author:Currin, JenSummary:
Jen Currin’s acclaimed debut collection, The Sleep of Four Cities, announced the arrival of a fully formed, arresting new talent, and the poems in her new collection, Hagiography, see her trademark wordplay and entirely contemporary...
- Author:Oliver, AlexandraSummary:
Hail, The Invisible Watchman is haunted poetry--Oliver's formal schemes are as tidy as a picket-fence and as suggestive; behind the charm of rhyme is a vibrant, dark exploration of domestic and social alienation. The poems in Hail...
- Author:Paddon, DaveSummary:
The world of Dave Paddon's recitations is quirky, riotously funny, and utterly unique; a place of tall tales and plain foolishness, where fog is so thick you can use it for cannonballs, and a polar bear hijacks a bingo tournament....
- Author:Arnott, JoanneSummary:
In Halfling spring, a series of notes unfolds the dance of desire versus trust through a long season of actual and metaphorical springtime. Joanne Arnott is a Metis/mixed blood mother of six, and in this collection she continues her...
- Author:McGimpsey, DavidSummary:
Canadian poetry, well done, with everything, to go. Hamburger Valley, California is David McGimpsey’s funniest and most compelling collection to date. With his unapologetic love of popular culture, he presents an elaborate...
- Author:Ondaatje, MichaelSummary:
Ondaatje's new collection of poetry explores themes of love, landscape, and the sweep of history set in the poet's first home, Sri Lanka. 1998.
- Author:Unrau, Melanie DennisSummary:
Happiness Threads: The Unborn Poems, Melanie Dennis Unrau’s debut collection is an elegantly spare, thoughtful, and fiercely tenacious meditation on the trials and tribulations of modern motherhood. Written in response to the platitude...
- Author:Bennett, JonathanSummary:
“Bennett’s artistry lies in his ability to create poems that shatter complacency with bricks of loaded language.” — Quill & Quire on Civil and Civic
“How are you doing, happinesswise?” This is the unifying...
- Author:Crummey, MichaelSummary:
In Hard Light Michael Crummey retells and reinvents his father's stories of outport Newfoundland and the Labrador fishery of a half century ago. Speaking through generations of storytellers, he conjures a world of hard toil and heavy...
- Author:Ferguson, JesseSummary:
Jesse Patrick Ferguson brings music and poetry into conversation with each other in this compelling debut collection. Modelled on the fundamental tones and overtones of the harmonic series, poems in Ferguson's arrangement riff on...
- Author:Norman, Renee, Leggo, CarlSummary:
This collection of both narrative and lyrical poetry moves between two strong voices that resonate with and against one another, a woman and a man, focusing on family relationships in all their intersections and differences. The poems...
- Author:Sinclair, SueSummary:
Heaven's Thieves is a collection engaged with the big questions? What are bodies for? What does it mean to be alive? What is beauty and why does it have such power over us? What is the point of art? - and the urgent ones: how to...
- Author:Islam, Doyali FarahSummary:
From Toronto-based poet and editor Doyali Islam comes an intimate, luminous collection of poems that investigate the ruptures in our relationships. How does one inhabit a world in which the moon and the drone hang in the same sky? How...
- Author:Smith, Douglas BurnetSummary:
Actress Mae West once said "I’ve been things and seen places." Poet Douglas Burnet Smith might well be able to lay claim to the same boast. In his latest collection of verse he takes the reader on a kaleidoscopic journey...
- Author:Carr, AngelaSummary:
Here in There, Angela Carr’s third book of poetry, is a lyrical petition to the human faculty of attention. In constant motion, the poems locate unusual instances of connection. They ask, do we give or pay attention? And what do we...
- Author:Roberts, CleaSummary:
With her remarkable debut collection, Yukon poet Clea Roberts proffers a perceptive & ecological reading of the Canadian North's past & present. Roberts deftly draws out the moments that comprise a cycle of seasons, paying...
- Author:Hill, GeraldSummary:
In his new poetry collection, Gerald Hill invites you to take a cruise down the streets of Hillsdale, learn about its architecture, rehearse its schoolyard taunts and sample its denizens' favourite drink recipes. Fusing history,...
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