Shortlisted, Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize. Part roving eye, part devotion, you wander hotel corridors, entering rooms not quite yours, trying on clothes, blankets, skins. Arguing with the body's limits and its trickery, you are always...
Canadian poetry
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Author:Blythe, AliSummary: - Author:Bacon, JoséphineSummary:
Avec Joséphine Bacon commence une nouvelle histoire de la poésie québécoise. Prix des libraires 2019 Finaliste au Indigenous Voices Award 2019 Uiesh - Quelque part est un recueil bilingue français-innu aimum. Quelque part, une...
- Author:Mutala, MarionSummary:
The rich and varied poems in Ukrainian Daughter’s Dance speak to the heart as they document a woman’s life journey, as a Ukrainian-Canadian, and as a prairie woman, and her voyage of self-discovery. Her story can be anyone’s...
- Author:Namir, HasanSummary:
Dear Child Once upon a time Your baba fell in love with your dad We got married and dreamt of having a baby A roller coaster of emotions and feelings We were always hopeful Lambda Literary and Stonewall Book Award-winner Hasan Namir...
- Author:Schiffler, CarrieSummary:
Umbilicus is a meditation on sensuality and the sweet ache of shame’s hangover.Carrie Schiffler is an actor, writer, and former exotic dancer. Johanna Stickland is a photographer, painter, poet, and former fashion model. Both are...
- Author:McIntire, GabrielleSummary:
Inspired by mystical traditions, birdwatching, tree planting, ethics, neuropsychology, and quantum physics, Gabrielle McIntire's poems draw us in with their passionate attention to what it means to be human in a still-wondrous...
- Author:Boan, SelinaSummary:
Selina Boan's debut poetry collection, Undoing Hours, considers the various ways we undo, inherit, reclaim and (re)learn. Boan's poems emphasize sound and breath; they tell stories of meeting family, of experiencing love and heartbreak...
- Author:Goyette, SueSummary:
Shortlisted for the 2005 Atlantic Poetry Prize, the 2005 Dartmouth Book Award and the 2005 Acorn-Plantos Award for People’s Poetry
Undone is a cornucopia of passionate poems arranged into three sections. “Forgotten” has...
- Author:Smith Gagnon, MaudeSummary:
« L’auteure, Maude Smith Gagnon, procède par des touches narratives bien ciselées que sert une belle maîtrise de la langue. Un drap. Une place., à la forme très minimale, proche d’une sensibilité orientale, est un hommage à l’intensité...
- Author:Lee, John B.Summary:
Winner of the 1995 Milton Acorn Memorial People’s Poetry Prize
Variations on Herb is the latest in a lengthening series of books that emanate from the south-western Ontario farm of John B. Lee's childhood. The focus of...
- Author:Martin RoySummary:
Comme son titre l'indique, Vers le Pays de Canaan évoque de manière symbolique la conquête du peuple hébreu menée par Josué de ce pays qui est aujourd'hui Israël. Il n'est donc pas surprenant qu'il soit...
- Author:Vallières, WilliamSummary:
Poems about Montreal's metro stations and streets to pastoral mise-en-scènes. William Vallières' first book.
- Author:Phaneuf, RichardSummary:
Fille d’eau et de sable, sur les rives de ce long fleuve, libre d’espaces, tu imaginais tes contes de fée. Le bonheur ! Tu as couru dans les prés parmi les fleurs, les ronces, les blés. Vient un temps où on désapprend le rêve et se...
- Author:Houle, JenniferSummary:
The title of Jennifer Houle’s second collection, Virga, refers to a cloud formation often seen on the horizon, when rain begins to fall but evaporates before reaching the ground, only to fall again when the time is right. Likewise, the...
- Author:Dowker, David, Stewart, ChristineSummary:
Virtualis: Topologies of the Unreal is a poetic investigation of melancholia and the baroque. As a collaborative reading of writers such as Walter Benjamin, Christine Buci-Glucksmann, Giorgio Agamben, Gilles Deleuze, Charles Baudelaire...
- Author:Wall, Kathleen, 1950-, Geminder, VeronicaSummary:
Visible Cities prompts readers to reconsider their relationship to the landscapes of cities. Poems explore streets in cities all over the world, while the photographs find beauty in back lanes, observe people taking their coffee breaks...
- Author:Daley, DorisSummary:
Vistas of the West is a collection of poetry and visual art that celebrates the beauty and spirit of the Rocky Mountains, Western foothills, prairie landscapes, and the natural inhabitants of these beautiful environments.
- Author:Poliquin, LaurentSummary:
Le poème se marche la vie en poche. Volute velours offre sa monnaie d’échange amoureux à la beauté gravée dans les ruines de moments pléniers.
- Author:Pierce, E. AlexSummary:
Poems of great passion and tenderness, as close to rapture as a writer can get and still hold on.
E. Alex Pierce’s voice can be heard echoing down the long corridors of memory and myth. It’s not that these poems live in the past...
- Author:Rodier, LouisSummary:
Recueil de poésie vivant, de magnifique témoignage.
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