Katie Vatour’s extraordinary debut collection is an eclectic examination of the space where humans and animals meet, where migratory patterns encounter commercial flights, and birds appear as fishermen, security guards, and street...
Canadian poetry
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Author:Vautour, KatieSummary: - Author:Dickinson, AdamSummary:
The poems of Anatomic have emerged from biomonitoring and microbiome testing on the author's body to examine the way the outside writes the inside, whether we like it or not. Adam Dickinson drew blood, collected urine, swabbed...
- Author:Wallin, MynaSummary:
Bringing together the themes of death, of gender and sexuality, the poet creates a speaker whose language and experience, linked from poem to poem, reflects the true complexity of a woman's perspective. Death is a prevalent theme;...
- Author:Helwig, Susan L.Summary:
A love-you-love-you-not daisy petal game for the 21st century, And the Cat Says… is a whimsical, delectable treat; a poetry collection which weaves in some strange haircuts, flying carpets and two sets of twins. Oh, and did we mention...
- Author:Charlton, BrianSummary:
A pinball wizard stars in this urban romance, set where the blues meet jazz in London, Ontario's historic York Hotel.
- Author:Sharpe, JamieSummary:
An accessible and illuminating debut collection that explores the arranged marriage of the bestial and humane
Logic is strained, existence contracts and multiplies, connections amputate then graft in incongruous...
- Author:Humphreys, HelenSummary:
Winner of the 2000 Canadian Authors Association Award for Poetry and shortlisted for the 2000 Pat Lowther Award and the 2001 Milton Acorn Memorial People’s Poetry Prize
Physical and fiercely lyric, Helen Humphreys' Anthem...
- Author:Soutar-Hynes, Mary LouSummary:
The poems in Any Waking Morning probe deeply into love, loss, and life's darker dilemmas. They seek pathways and meaning, interrogate endings and life changes, and tap the creative energy engendered through art's ekphrastic...
- Author:Scarsbrook, RichardSummary:
Welcome to the apocalypse! It was arrived . . . not with a bang, but with the white noise hum of tabloid news and the empty promise of the internet. Richard Scarsbrook`s Apocalypse One Hundred strips back the veneer of our screen-filled...
- Author:Funk, CarlaSummary:
Capturing moments in time and nature, Carla Funks poems bring the world to a momentary standstill. Funk translates vivid descriptions and feeling into her poems, both testing and playing with traditional poetic experiences.Apologetics...
- Author:Kennedy, Bill , Wershler-Henry, DarrenSummary:
you are entirely happy with your poem / you are not happy then there is no charge and your deposit is returned / you are totally satisfied with the outcome / you are a man / you are a little confused / you are entirely happy with your...
- Author:Blodgett, E. DSummary:
Nothing Is But You and I, the breathtaking new volume in the Apostrophes series, reveals poet E.D. Blodgett at his most accomplished. A masterful lyrical grace meets exquisite technique as Blodgett fathoms intimacy, knowledge, and being...
- Author:Blodgett, E. D.Summary:
Nothing Is But You and I, the breathtaking new volume in the Apostrophes series, reveals poet E.D. Blodgett at his most accomplished. A masterful lyrical grace meets exquisite technique as Blodgett fathoms intimacy, knowledge, and being...
- Author:Anderson, MiaSummary:
Verve, energy, wit, piquance and pure linguistic excitement: Mia Anderson's poetry is a whole cookbook of poetic experiences. Anderson is always ready to take big risks, and her work shows her love of life in its manyness and accident,...
- Author:Grant, Shauntay, Thiébaux-Heikalo, TamaraSummary:
From patchwork-quilt farmland to the winding red roads, from sandy beaches to the endless stars at night, Apples and Butterflies shows Prince Edward Island shining in the bright blue and gold light of fall. Shauntay Grant's award-...
- Author:Porter, MichelleSummary:
In Approaching Fire, Michelle Porter embarks on a quest to find her great-grandfather, the Métis fiddler and performer Léon Robert Goulet. Through musicology, jigs and reels, poetry, photographs, and the ecology of fire, Porter...
- Author:Steadman, DeanSummary:
Shortlisted for the 2017 Archibald Lampman Award and the Raymond Souster Award
Poems that echo Satie’s haunting music and refract the ironies of the Parisian Dada movement
A man who might be Erik Satie floats, à la...
- Author:Holmes, NancySummary:
Arborophobia, the latest collection by award-winning poet Nancy Holmes, is a poetic spiritual reckoning. Its elegies, litanies, and indictments concern wonder, guilt, and grief about the journey of human life and the state of the...
- Author:Brossard, Nicole, Carr, AngelaSummary:
something like wait for mein the braille of scarstonight can i suggest a little punctuationcircle half-moon vertical line of astonishmenta pause that transformslight and breath into language and threshold of fire Even as vowels tremble...
- Author:Rogers, Janet MarieSummary:
This poetry collection creatively reveals the beautiful and bitter essences of the world from a distinctive Indigenous female voice. Speaking from her unique Mohawk perspective, the poet unapologetically sings words of wisdom and...
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