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  • Author:
    Boughn, Michael
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    Butt out, Dante. Move over, Milton. Piss off, Pound. Outta the way, Olson. Here comes Cosmographia – a post-Lucretian faux micro-epic, the latest ground breaking incursion into the ever popular spectacle of the Epic Poem. Tracking the...

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    Cadsby, Heather
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    Poems about the unexpected and often wry coincidences language lends to life.

    In Could be, each poem is a moment of engaged and isolated attention, prodding language, relationships, the mundane aspects of daily life,...

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    Roorda, Julie
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    The poems in Courage Underground burrow beneath the skin to examine the relationship between consciousness and body. They penetrate hidden emotions contained by vital organs; they enter the sensibilities of lower order creatures and...

  • Author:
    Dodds, Jeramy
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    Winner of the Trillium Book Award for Poetry Nominated for the Griffin Poetry Prize and the Gerald Lampert Award. With cameos by jackalopes, Glenn Gould, homemade spaceships and Carl Linnaeus, these poems are remarkable for their...

  • Author:
    La Chance, Michaël
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    Les crapaudines sont des pierres précieuses que l’on croyait issues de la tête du crapaud. Elles sont en réalité des dents fossilisées de squales. Les poèmes qui nous sortent de la tête révèlent une sauvagerie antédiluvienne....

  • Author:
    Hunt, Dallas
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    Creeland is a poetry collection concerned with notions of home and the quotidian attachments we feel to those notions, even across great distances. Even in an area such as Treaty Eight (northern Alberta), a geography decimated by...

  • Author:
    MacIsaac, Dan
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    A pitch-perfect debutand a call to act in the service of Earth through radiant attention. Humankind, at present, has breached floodgates that have only been breached before in ancient stories of angry gods, or so far back on geologic...

  • Author:
    Walbourne-Gough, Douglas
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    Shortlisted, Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry and Raymond Souster Award. Longlisted, First Nation Communities READ Award. From the author: I cannot let the story of Crow Gulch - the story of my family and, subsequently, my own story - go...

  • Author:
    Housty, Jess
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    Crushed Wild Mint is a collection of poems embodying land love and ancestral wisdom, deeply rooted to the poet's motherland and their experience as a parent, herbalist and careful observer of the patterns and power of their territory....

  • Author:
    Schmidt, Brenda
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    Insightful and often humourous, Culverts Beneath the Narrow Road takes us on a journey of connecting people and nature through the unassuming culvert.

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    Sharpe, Jamie
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    Up-and-coming poet Jamie Sharpe presents a finely tuned second collection

    Cut-up Apologetic, Sharpe’s second collection, explores aging in a world where youth is terrible and something we desperately want back....

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    Fretwell, Katerina Vaughan
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    Dancing on a Pin is Katerina Fretwell’s eighth poetry, and art, collection. Honest, stark, brave, and at times a humorous evoking of feelings and ideas, this collection of evocative poems is focused on the poet’s husband's...

  • Author:
    Soutar-Hynes, Mary Lou
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    The poems in Dark Water Songs begin on the margins of islands and ancestors, and fan out, probing love, loss and life’s dilemmas. They expand and deepen the poetic exploration which began with her earlier collections, mining...

  • Author:
    Leifso, Brenda
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    Shortlisted for the 2009 Lampman-Scott Award (for the best book of poetry in the National Capital Region)

    Vivid accessible poems revealing the mythic proportions of a seemingly simple, rural childhood and the passions that course...

  • Author:
    Babstock, Ken
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    Days into Flatspin is Ken Babstock's extraordinary second collection and it reveals a poet in full flight, fearless and technically brilliant. Diving into and then beyond what is seen or the coma of looking as one poem calls it,...

  • Author:
    Sharpe, Jamie
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    Poems that challenge the depths of perception Dazzle camouflage, at the beginning of the 20th century, was an attempt to answer the question, How do we hide those things that are too big to hide' Ships, often containing thousands...

  • Author:
    Sharpe, Jamie
    Summary:

    Poems that challenge the depths of perception

    Dazzle camouflage, at the beginning of the 20th century, was an attempt to answer the question, How do we hide those things that are too big to hide? Ships, often...

  • Author:
    Wynand, Derk
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    Dead Man’s Float details that sad emblem of Western alienation, the tourist couple in their rented tropical Eden. Here life is temporary and not at all cheap. The wildlife is spectacular, the culture incomprehensible, and the...

  • Author:
    Sloate, Daniel
    Summary:

    Daniel Sloate (1931-2009) was a prolific poet, playwright and translator.

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    Rhodes, Shane
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    A vital collection that interrogates the stories of the dead white men that litter our histories and landscapes. Juxtaposing the seemingly benign names of Europeans that permeate our geographies with the details of their so-called...

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