Burning in this Midnight Dream is the latest collection of poems by Louise Bernice Halfe. Many were written in response to the grim tide of emotions, memories, dreams and nightmares that arose in her as the Truth and Reconciliation...
Canadian poetry
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Author:Halfe, Louise Bernice (Sky Dancer)Summary: - Author:Prior, MichaelSummary:
Acerbic, moving, and formally astonishing, Michael Prior's second collection explores the enduring impact of the Japanese internment upon his family legacy and his mixed-race identity.
Canada-Japan Literary Award, Winner
... - Author:Beck, CarolynSummary:
Wend your way through Buttercup's lovely day. This edition combines both written and spoken words.
- Author:Smart, ElizabethSummary:
Elizabeth Smart’s passionate fictional account of her intense love-affair with the poet George Barker, described by Angela Carter as ‘Like Madame Bovary blasted by lightening … A masterpiece’.
One day, while browsing in a London...
- Author:Deerchild, RosannaSummary:
"Calling Down the Sky" is a poetry collection that describes deep personal experiences and post generational effects of the Canadian Aboriginal Residential School confinements in the 1950's when thousands of First Nations...
- Author:Barnes, MikeSummary:
Shortlisted for the 1997 Gerald Lampert Award
The poems in Calm Jazz Sea reveal a world forever becoming and disappearing, watched over and handled gently by the compassionate intelligence of Mike Barnes. In the everyday...
- Author:Dickinson, MarkSummary:
"Mark Dickinson's Canadian Primalis a decisive event in Canadian literary criticism, comparable to Margaret Atwood's Survival and Northrop Frye's The Bush Garden. Dickinson brings us the lives and achievements of five great poets who...
- Author:Slegtenhorst, HendrikSummary:
Many come to evil; many others search for a different way to be. Animated by the work of Caravaggio, Hendrik Slegtenhorst’s poems inquire, what is a pursuit of right action? Caravaggio, the murderous, brilliant 16th-century painter,...
- Author:Smart, CarolynSummary:
Second place winner in the 3rd Annual Fred Cogswell Award for Excellence in Poetry (2016)
Remember Bonnie & Clyde?
A complex, dramatic rendering of a familiar story made new.
Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow are...
- Author:Wells, ZachariahSummary:
By turns celebratory and sceptical, Career Limiting Moves is a selection of essays and reviews drawn from a decade of immersion in Canadian poetry. Inhabiting a milieu in which unfriendly remarks are typically spoken sotto voce - if at...
- Author:Kemick, Richard KellySummary:
At one moment, a pure abstraction; at the next, an incontrovertible presence of hooves, antlers, and fur. The beating heart of this assured début by Richard Kelly Kemick is the Porcupine caribou herd of the western Arctic. In Caribou...
- Author:Guénette, DanielSummary:
Carmen quadratum parce qu’ici le chant est carré, peu lyrique ; carré également dans le sens où une construction rigoureuse préside à son élaboration. Il convient d’aborder ces textes par les quatre côtés de l’ouvrage. En ce sens, celui...
- Author:Locas, JanisSummary:
Carpe et chienne est l’occasion pour Janis Locas – reconnue déjà pour la vivacité de son écriture dans La maudite Québécoise – de repousser les limites des genres dans une variété de textes parcourant les extrêmes de l’humeur. Le...
- Author:Dickinson, AdamSummary:
Shortlisted for the 2003 Henry Kreisel Award for Best First Book (Writers Guild of Alberta Award)
Without you,
I have taken to drawing maps
on the backs of photographs.
On the coast in a raincoat
your... - Author:Porter, PamelaSummary:
This collection of poems takes us on a journey — a very personal journey of Pamela Porter's own — to Africa and South America, those corners of the world the news reports never seem to cover: to Angola's thirty-year-long civil war, a...
- Author:Morency, JoanneSummary:
Cette lumière dans la paume, on ne l’espérait plus. Ces couleurs qui s’étirent sans se perdre. Toutes choses qui, soudain, semblent se connaître entre elles. Une oie blanche sur fond blanc... Et l’on retrouve ses premiers battements de...
- Author:Langlois, JocelyneSummary:
Avec sa poésie rafraîchissante, ses images qui nous bercent et son riche vocabulaire, l'auteure nous laisse voir qu'elle aime jongler avec les mots. Elle nous séduit, nous fait rêver, réfléchir et rire à la fois au fil...
- Author:Ltaif, Nadine, Tipper, ChristineSummary:
One woman's emotional and cultural journey is luxuriously illustrated in this moving collection, as she artfully recounts leaving Lebanon for a new life in Canada. In a voice that blends prose with poetry, she copes with the newfound...
- Author:McNair, ChristineSummary:
A charm can protect, inflict or influence.Charm, the second collection by poet Christine McNair, considers the craftwork of conception from a variety of viewpoints—from pregnancy and motherhood, to how an orchid is pollinated, to...
- Author:Des Rosiers, JoëlSummary:
La chaux est l’encre des écrits divins. C’est donc à un Dieu à la main coupée, à ce point humain, que tout poète s’adresse comme limite de tout savoir. Plutôt que de prendre la parole, Joël Des Rosiers a voulu être enveloppé par elle,...
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