In To Love the Coming End, a disillusioned author obsessed with natural disasters and 'the curse of 11' reflects on their own personal earthquake: the loss of a loved one. A lyric travelogue that moves between Singapore, Canada, and...
Canadian poetry
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Author:Dunic, LeanneSummary: - Author:Fitch, Sheree, Smith, SydneySummary:
I stuck my toes In my nose And I couldn’t get them out… Silly, funny, and outrageous, Toes in My Nose is the book that launched Sheree Fitch’s career as Canada’s premiere nonsense poet. From Popcorn Pete and Mabel Murple to Zelba...
- Author:Piepzna-Samarasinha, Leah LakshmiSummary:
In their fourth collection of poetry, Lambda Literary Award-winning poet and writer Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha continues her excavation of working-class queer brown femme survivorhood and desire. Tonguebreaker is about surviving...
- Author:Phillips, ElizabethSummary:
Winner, Lesbian Poetry at the 2008 GCLS Literary Awards (Golden Crown Literary Awards) and nominated for LGBT Poetry at the Lambda Literary Awards
Shortlisted for the 2007 Anne Szumigalsi Award for Poetry and the 2007 Saskatoon...
- Author:Cook, MéiraSummary:
Shortlisted for the 1997 Pat Lowther Award and for the 1997 McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award
Toward a Catalogue of Falling, Méira Cook’s second full-length book, proves that the fall into language can be both...
- Author:Cooper, AllanSummary:
This collection brings together Allan Cooper's best poems over the last forty years. He weaves visions of nature with insight into the workings of the human heart. Read them individually or read them as a single long, flowing and...
- Author:Dion-Glowa, JusteneSummary:
Indigenous Poetry; Métis Poetry; Working-Class Poetry; Grief; Trauma; Belonging; Childhood Home; Stream of Consciousness; Death; Culture; Neurodivergence; Win-Nipi; Winnipeg
- Author:Guénette, DanielSummary:
Le doute apparaît ici comme un antidote à la folie meurtrière de ceux qui imposent leurs certitudes. Un certain dieu semble avoir la vie dure et s’ingénier, à travers ses prétendus représentants, à rendre l’existence des hommes tout à...
- Author:MacLean, KathSummary:
The hunt over; the kill complete / limping towards perfection, padding / about the room, thorns in her thumbs / Hermes crawling on all fours - / That was the last I saw of Hilda. What is it to remember a life, to relive it, to...
- Author:Stapleton, Berni, King-Campbell, SharonSummary:
Originally produced for the stage by Artistic Fraud of Newfoundland and For the Love of Learning, transVersing features some of Newfoundland's most vibrant and necessary trans-youth voices. Gathering the work of Violet Drake, Daze...
- Author:Ruffo, Armand GarnetSummary:
A treaty is a contract. A treaty is enduring. A treaty is an act of faith. A treaty at its best is justice. It is a document and an undertaking. It is connected to place, people and self. It is built on the past, but it also indicates...
- Author:Joyal, Michael, Hemphill, LucySummary:
In this final installation of the Overhead Series, Lucy Hemphill once again transports the reader with intimate revelations on identity by exploring both her personal and ancestral relationship to the forest and the quiet sentinels that...
- Author:Hemphill, LucySummary:
In this final installation of the Overhead Series, Lucy Hemphill once again transports the reader with intimate revelations on identity by exploring both her personal and ancestral relationship to the forest and the quiet sentinels that...
- Author:Gordon, ArielSummary:
During the heatwave of July 2017, Ariel Gordon spent two days sitting on the patio of downtown Winnipeg’s Tallest Poppy, writing snippets of poems which she hung from the boulevard tree using paper and string. Passersby were invited to...
- Author:Rogers, Janet MarieSummary:
The book creatively reveals the beautiful and bitter essences of the world from a distinctive Indigenous female voice. Inspired by her recent global travels, experiences, relationships and Haudenosaunee perspective, the poet...
- Author:Minkus, KimSummary:
Tuft: "A bunch (natural or artificial) of small things, usually soft and flexible, ...fixed or attached at the base." - OED With Tuft, Kim Minkus takes us on flights of poetic fancy into futures where we "observe the green elite" and "...
- Author:Novakovich, JosipSummary:
In this latest short-story collection Josip Novakovich explores the shallow roots of emigration as he traverses North America from university post to writing residency. These stunning stories showcase the author at his most intimate,...
- Author:McInnis, NadineSummary:
Shortlisted for the 2008 Pat Lowther Award, the 2008 Lampman Scott Award and the 2008 ReLit Awards Imagining the lives of nineteenth-century women asylum patients, Nadine McInnis charts her descent into, and recovery from, depression....
- Author:Paddon, SusanSummary:
Winner of the J.M. Abraham Poetry Award (East Coast Literary Awards)
Chekhov’s work and life fuse with a daughter’s caring for her dying mother in this powerful debut.
Two Tragedies in 429 Breaths is a book-length...
- Author:Roches, Roger Des, D'Alfonso, AntonioSummary:
Translated by award-winning author Antonio D’Alfonso, this collection presents four books by prolific Quebec writer Roger Des Roches. Considered by many scholars and critics to be one of the founders of modernity in Quebec, Des Roches’...
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