From his first book, The Visible Man (“as fine a first volume of poetry as one is ever likely to read” — the Dalhousie Review), to his most recent, Resurrection In the Cartoon (“passionate, humourous, worldly-wise,...
Canadian poetry
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Author:Priest, RobertSummary: - Author:Munro, JaneSummary:
In Blue Sonoma, award-winning poet Jane Munro draws on her well-honed talents to address what Eliot called “the gifts reserved for age.” A beloved partner’s crossing into Alzheimer’s is at the heart of this book, and his “battered blue...
- Author:Kanapé Fontaine, NatashaSummary:
In this, her third volume of poetry, this Aboriginal writer from Quebec again confronts the loss of her landscape and language.
- Author:Robertson, LisaSummary:
From the author of The Baudelaire Fractal, a poetry classic, with new work In 2004, boldly original poet Lisa Robertson published a chapbook, Rousseau's Boat, poems culled from years of notebooks that are, nevertheless, by no means...
- Author:Hamilton, J. A.Summary:
Shortlisted for the 1991 Pat Lowther Award
In J.A. Hamilton’s poems blood is red, black hearts are black. There is no flinching from things as bad as they can be, especially but not only for women. And yet, this passionate...
- Author:Nielsen, EmiliaSummary:
If Body Work begins by writing desire through a belief in the stability of the physical body, this is undone in exploring symptoms of disease, new self-knowledge and rewriting one’s personal story. Because Body Work explicitly...
- Author:Cooley, DennisSummary:
The body may be feared. It may be a site of philosophic and theological weakness, a place of fear and contamination. The body may be weak. It is ephemeral and impure compared to what is supposed in an abstracted world of pure intellect...
- Author:Piepzna-Samarasinha, Leah LakshmiSummary:
In Bodymap, Lambda Award-winner Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha sings a queer disabled femme-of-colour love song filled with hard femme poetics and disability justice. In this volume, Leah Lakshmi maps hard and vulnerable terrains of...
- Author:Anstee, CameronSummary:
The debut collection from small press editor and publisher Cameron Anstee, Book of Annotations deploys a number of minimalist strategies-including erasure, found, lyric, haiku, one-line, one-word, concrete/visual, cento, restricted...
- Author:Cohen, LeonardSummary:
The poems in this book brim with praise, despair, anger, doubt, and trust. Speaking from the heart of the modern world, these verses give voice to our deepest intuitions.
- Author:Nudelman, MerleSummary:
Weaving together complex layers of personal and political history, this collection of poems traces a Jewish family's path from 1930s Europe to 21st-century Canada. Recalling the delicate, enduring family bonds that have held fast...
- Author:Chatterjee, AyeshaSummary:
A collection of poems reflecting insights and experiences gained from the author's cultural roots and travels and homes in Asia, Europe and Canada.
- Author:O'Reilly, AmberSummary:
Recueil de poèmes d’une jeune Franco-Ténoise, des expériences qu’elle a vécu et du regard qu’elle porte sur celles-ci, en particulier le fait de grandir en région, l’insécurité linguistique, la découverte de la grande ville et...
- Author:DiGiovanni, Caroline MorganSummary:
This is the third anthology of Italian Canadian writers organized and edited by Caroline Morgan Di Giovanni with support from Centro Scuola e Cultura Italiana, Toronto. The first Italian Canadian Voices in 1984 contained the first...
- Author:Sinclair, SueSummary:
Shortlisted for 2009 Pat Lowther Memorial Award
and the Atlantic Poetry PrizeThe essence, the quintessence, of lyric poetry.
Sue Sinclair is the direct inheritor of the great early 20th Century German poet, Rilke:...
- Author:Goobie, BethSummary:
Autobiographical in nature, breathing at dusk follows the journey of one girl as she escapes her childhood home and all of the painful memories that home elicits – her memories largely centered around the physical and sexual abuse she...
- Author:Gobeil, BethSummary:
A mother's story. A son's story. Poems that touch us. Breathing Room, by Beth Gobeil narrates a difficult story; a mother's journey, beginning at the point her son is diagnosed with Cystic Fibrosis. Saskatchewan poet, Beth Gobeil,...
- Author:Morgan, Cara-LynSummary:
Motherhood, trauma, and familial history are woven together into a powerful collection from the award-winning author of What Became My Grieving Ceremony. Beginning with a revelation of familial sexual abuse, Building a Nest from the...
- Author:Gruber, AdrienneSummary:
Buoyancy Control, the latest collection of poems from Vancouverite Adrienne Gruber, explores themes of sexuality, sexual identity, and queerness, while confronting the feelings of loss and longing found in relationships, and the chance...
- Author:Smith, Douglas BurnetSummary:
Burden is a poetry collection that tells the story of a seventeen-year-old British soldier, Private Herbert Burden, who was shot for desertion during World War I. He was one of hundreds so executed. It is now understood that many had...
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