Rough Wilderness chronicles one of the most famous tales of love, betrayal and redemption. Heloise and Abelard were medieval scholars whose taboo-breaking affair shocked clerics and fellow scholars and assured the star-crossed pair a...
Poetry
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Author:Aubert, RosemarySummary: - Author:RumiSummary:
From Madonna to Deepak Chopra, celebrities have been recording and embracing Rumi's poetry for the past two decades, creating a resurgence of interest in this 13th century Sufi mystic. This beautiful collection of 196 of his poems,...
- Author:Soestmeyer, AxelSummary:
This is a posthumous collection of poems. Though Axel Soestmeyer did not live to see the poems into print, this edition Chr(45) faithful to his intentions Chr(45) makes public the complex expression of an emotional thinker and...
- Author:Fiorito, JoeSummary:
Joe Fiorito spent 18 hours in total, over the course of three days, on the corner of Victoria and Queen in downtown Toronto watching the city go by and recording what he saw. The rhythms of the city ebb and flow according to the time of...
- Author:Millaire, ArmandeSummary:
Adepte du camping depuis 2001, vivant sous les palmiers durant l’hiver et dans les pommes en été, elle vous invite à goûter chaque jour qui passe en savourant toute la beauté de la Nature. Elle vous invite à partager son idéal de vie,...
- Author:Truscott, MarkSummary:
Warning: this book may encourage a series of ungrammatical thoughts! Welcome to the poetic landscape of Mark Truscott, where less is more than you bargained for. Said Like Reeds or Things is a book of micropoetic and linguistic koans....
- Author:Collins, BillySummary:
Sailing Alone Around the Room, by America’s Poet Laureate, Billy Collins, contains both new poems and a generous gathering from his earlier collections The Apple That Astonished Paris, Questions About Angels, The Art of Drowning, and...
- Author:Barkhouse, JanetSummary:
Salt Fires is a volume of poems that embrace and reflect our human consciousness: our awareness, our blindness, our Shadow, our mythologies. They invite us to look at ourselves in ways that often are disconcerting, sometimes startling....
- Author:MILTON, JohnSummary:
Milton composes his last extended work as a tragedy according to the classical Unities of Time, Place and Action. Nevertheless it “never was intended for the stage” and is here declaimed by a single reader....
- Author:Robert Drewe and John KinsellaSummary:
"In memoir, stories and poems, Drewe and Kinsella celebrate the all-pervasive Western Australian geological element of sand ..." Summary Renowned novelist and creative non-fiction writer, Robert Drewe, teams up with...
- Author:Guriel, JasonSummary:
Satisfying Clicking Sound is a book that’s never afraid to make a show of itself. In his third collection, Jason Guriel gives us a quick-thinking colloquial style that segues deftly from deadpan wit to deep emotion. Like the hard-to-...
- Author:Currin, JenSummary:
At times a call to action and at others an intimate conversation between friends, Currin’s sensual and surreal poems speak to the political upheavals and environmental catastrophes of our time. School is an instruction manual for...
- Author:Simpson, DanielSummary:
Poets and identical twins Daniel and David Simpson were born blind in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, in 1952. Each has recently released a book of poems that speaks openly and frankly about their adventures attending a school for the blind...
- Author:Hutchinson, IshionSummary:
A stunning memorial work that excavates the forgotten experience of West Indian soldiers during World War I. Deep-dyed in language both sensuous and biblical, Ishion Hutchinson's School of Instructions memorializes the experience of...
- Author:Pato, Chus, Moure, ErínSummary:
Secession / Insecession is a homage to the acts of reading, writing and translating poetry. In it, Chus Pato’s Galician biopoetics of poet and nation, Secession – translated by Erín Moure – joins Moure’s Canadian translational...
- Author:Sinclair, SueSummary:
Shortlisted for the 2002 Gerald Lampert Award
Cumulus
These are the carriers.
Their large, mild bodies make us think
of domesticity, of milk. Mammalian
they hold the rain in their bellies, a generous... - Author:Green, JonathanSummary:
The best art has the uncanny ability not only to give pleasure to those who view it but also to inspire a desire to respond. The best artists are a force for all art, and renowned Gullah artist Jonathan Green's work has inspired a wide...
- Author:Gould, NoraSummary:
Finalist for the 2017 Governor General’s Award for Poetry and
Shortlisted for the 2017 Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry (Writers Guild of Alberta Award)A long poem that limns the incremental mourning of living with...
- Author:Eliot, T. S.Summary:
An essential collection of classic poems by the father of modernist poetry. In the masterly cadence of T. S. Eliot's verse, the twentieth century found its definitive poetic voice, an incredible "image of its accelerated...
- Author:Ai, QingSummary:
A timeless, visionary collection of poems from one of China's most acclaimed poets--now available in English for the first time in a generation and featuring a foreword by his son, contemporary artist and activist Ai WeiweiOne of...
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