Think Kierkegaard in a spacesuit, Kubrik in a Left Bank café.Like the neutrino observatory of its title, Midday at the Super-Kamiokande seeks "glimpses of the obscure" to carve out meaning, alternately a resistance to...
Canadian poetry
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Author:Hussain, NasserSummary: - Author:Cook, MéiraSummary:
Longlisted for the 2004 ReLit Awards
Slovenly Love is Méira Cook’s third book of poetry. A Fine Grammar of Bones and Toward a Catalogue of Falling, both collections of lyrics, are now joined by a fascinating...
- Author:Litovitz, Malca, Wolff, ElanaSummary:
Showcasing the fruits of creativity from illness, this duologue and poetry collection addresses the last months of author Malca Litovitz's life and her devotion to writing. Life, love, and death are all reflected upon in unshielded,...
- Author:Best, Ashley-ElizabethSummary:
The eagerly anticipated debut from one of Canada’s most exciting new poets
In her debut collection, Ashley-Elizabeth Best explores the cultivation of resilience during uncertain and often trying times. It’s a book built...
- Author:Hertwig, BenjaminSummary:
Benjamin Hertwig’s debut collection of poetry, Slow War, is at once an account of contemporary warfare and a personal journey of loss and the search for healing. It stands in the tradition of Wilfred Owen’s “Dulce et Decorum Est” and...
- Author:Wheeler, SueSummary:
Shortlisted for the 2001 Pat Lowther Award and the 2001 Dorothy Livesay Award for Poetry (BC Book Prizes)
Hear the rustle all down the block as people unwrap the box of the Fifties. Life will be a clock, a pet, it will wag its...
- Author:Shaw, KevinSummary:
Stately and majestic, yet scuffed with wear and disillusion, the poems of Smaller Hours mount the sky like columns and fora of some archaic ruin. Through these ancient halls, Kevin Shaw tracks Eros, clearing away the rubble and...
- Author:Crozier, LornaSummary:
A rhyming, illustrated board book for babies that explores all of the places that baby animals may live, including forests, caves, jungles, burrows and beyond.
- Author:Cull, KerriSummary:
This collection focuses on physical experience and contemplates the beauty of everyday life – the objects, the stories, and the people that drift in and out. It finds the extraordinary in the ordinary.
- Author:Milne, Heather, Zolf, RachelSummary:
Social Poesis introduces readers to the work of one of Canada's most exciting and challenging poets. Through selections from across Rachel Zolf's poetic oeuvre, this book foregrounds the philosophical, ethical, and political...
- Author:Halfe, Louise Bernice (Sky Dancer), Gaertner, DavidSummary:
“I build this story like my lair. One willow, / a rib at a time” — “The Crooked Good” Since 1990, Sky Dancer Louise Bernice Halfe’s work has stood out as essential testimony to Indigenous experiences within the ongoing history of...
- Author:Daniel, DanielleSummary:
"In this introduction to the Anishinaabe tradition of totem animals, young children explain why they identify with different creatures such as a deer, beaver or moose. Delightful illustrations show the children wearing masks...
- Author:Bourque, OlivierSummary:
Sommeils prend forme dans un univers de soleil et de plage, non loin des bruits de la ville, teinté de rêveries d’enfants et des menus détails d’une fin d’été heureuse.
- Author:Heidbreder, RobertSummary:
As night falls on a soft summer evening, neighborhood children are drawn out of their houses by the sights and sounds of the world after dark. First the fireflies come sparkling past, followed by a host of domestic and wild animals,...
- Author:Moritz, A. F.Summary:
A. F. Moritz’s poems integrate nature and enduring myth with our inner life so movingly, so convincingly, that they almost seem to be our own thoughts. His direct and intimate tone, and the power, calm, and clarity of his expression,...
- Author:Blodgett, E.D.Summary:
In a series of poems inspired by Gustav Mahler's Kindertotenlieder, E.D. Blodgett searches for meaning amidst grief. In the contemplative gentleness of his words, he finds the special light children possess in their state of unknowing...
- Author:Zwicky, JanSummary:
Songs for Relinquishing the Earth contains many poems of praise and grief for the imperilled earth drawing frequently on Jan Zwicky's experience as a musician and philosopher and on the landscapes of the prairies and rural Ontario...
- Author:L'Abbé, SonnetSummary:
In 'Sonnet's Shakespeare,' one young, half-dougla (mixed South Asian and Black) poet tries to use 'the master's tools' on the Bard's 'house,' attempting to dismantle his monumental place in her psyche and in the poetic canon. In a...
- Author:Peters, BradleySummary:
Poems for and about the incarcerated. Moving from riots to mall parkades to church, the poems in Bradley Peters' debut Sonnets from a Cell mix inmate speech, prison psychology, skateboard slang and contemporary lyricism in a way that is...
- Author:Hynes, MaureenSummary:
Maureen Hynes, in her fifth book of poetry, speaks tenderly yet vehemently about the threatened worlds that concern her. From Toronto, where she lives and walks the city's afflicted watershed, she turns her attention to the near...
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