Dans ce recueil, la voix de la poète se fond dans la mémoire du territoire, de la culture, de ses racines, la mémoire du corps intime autant que celle, atrophiée, de l'Histoire. La première partie, Enfants du lichen, souligne avec...
Canadian poetry
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Author:Cousineau Mollen, MayaSummary: - Author:Dowling, SarahSummary:
Driving along the Pacific Coast Highway, you come to a road sign: Entering Sappho. Nothing remains of the town, just trash at the side of the highway and thick, wet bush. Can Sappho's breathless eroticism tell us anything about...
- Author:Pellissier-Lush, JulieSummary:
The highly anticipated debut poetry collection of Mi'kmaq poems by Prince Edward Island's Poet Laureate, Julie Pellisier-Lush. This collection will enthral poetry lovers. Skilled at taking words from hearts and minds to paper, Julie's...
- Author:Dunning, NormaSummary:
“Eskimo Pie: A Poetics of Inuit Identity” examines Dunning’s lived history as an Inuk who was born, raised and continues to live south of sixty. Her writing takes into account the many assimilative practices that Inuit continue to face...
- Author:GoldenEagle, Carol RoseSummary:
Parenthood is a journey with no roadmap, and it is the children who most often steer the ship. There are times in a parent's life when they ask, "Why am I doing this? It's so hard..." That is, until the moment of magic happen-and they...
- Author:Corriveau, HuguesSummary:
Dans ce recueil de la maturité, Hugues Corriveau offre, sous forme de grande élégie, un hommage à ses parents. En deux temps et deux tons, se déroulent deux vies. Le poète s’adresse à son père, s’appliquant à restituer le dialogue et l’...
- Author:Bök, ChristianSummary:
Winner of the Griffin Poetry Prize (2002) The word ‘eunoia,’ which literally means ‘beautiful thinking,’ is the shortest word in English that contains all five vowels. Directly inspired by the Oulipo (l’Ouvroir de Littérature...
- Author:Shraya, VivekSummary:
Vivek Shraya's debut collection of poetry is a bold and timely interrogation of skin - its origins, functions, and limitations. Poems that range in style from starkly concrete to limber break down the barriers that prevent...
- Author:Timmins, LeslieSummary:
The capacity of the rediscovered world to signal and illuminate, restore and repair, fuels the poems in Every Shameless Ray. In Every Shameless Ray, it's more often possible to find one's way when headed somewhere else....
- Author:Léveillé, J. R., Blodgett, E. D.Summary:
A bilingual collection of renga poetry by two of Canada’s most celebrated poets in English and in French, each writing in his respective language in response to the other. A project of discourse itself that explores Novalis’ definition...
- Author:Musgrave, SusanSummary:
A stunning new collection from a master poet celebrated for her singular voice. From the award-winning poet known for her bracing honesty and sharp yet compassionate gaze, here is a new collection of poems that explore life, marriage,...
- Author:Perissinotto, CristinaSummary:
Exhale, Exhale explores the many facets of love, including nostalgia, separation, and newly-found happiness. These terse poems describe various passages of a love story unravelling between two continents, from the lonesome nights of a...
- Author:Zits, PaulSummary:
Margaret is unlike other women: her hands bark, she speaks Hawaiian Punch, and she can often be seen prodding at stars with sticks. And sometimes she is the happiest woman in the world: a pillow with a pillowcase. Her brother, Alex,...
- Author:Cross-Blanchard, MollySummary:
Smart, raunchy poems that are sorry-not-sorry. Sticky, sad, and sultry, Exhibitionist is a merry-go-round circling back to the tender, awkward parts of ourselves. Molly Cross-Blanchard allows her poems to ask the reader out for ice...
- Author:Rosenfarb, ChavaSummary:
When Chava Rosenfarb arrived in Montreal in February 1950, she was already a published poet with one acclaimed volume, Di balade fun nekhtikn vald (The Ballad of Yesterday? Forest) to her credit. She was also a Holocaust survivor who,...
- Author:LaDuchesse, ChloéSummary:
Exosquelette : Appareil fixé sur le corps pour lui redonner sa mobilité. La poésie est l’exosquelette de Chloé LaDuchesse : «Mes os sont toujours creux, il n’y a rien à faire. Ce qui reste de moi, ce sont ces mots autour desquels je...
- Author:Pool, SandySummary:
In Exploding into Night, Sandy Pool delves into the heart of a grisly murder that took place in the Parkdale area of Toronto. With its dazzling turns and deafening silence, this narrative poem is a stark reappraisal of urban existence...
- Author:Queyras, SinaSummary:
Shortlisted for the Governor General's Award for Poetry. This poem resembles urban sprawl. This poem resembles the freedom to charge a fee. The fee occurs in the gaps. It is an event. It is not without precedent. It is a moment in which...
- Author:Press, KarenSummary:
With vicious wit, K. I. Press pries open the intimacies of our lives in her collection of poetry, Exquisite Monsters. Fearless and weird, she splays open motherhood and mourning, laying them cheek by jowl next to biomechanical androids...
- Author:Rees, RobertaSummary:
Co-winner of the 1992 Gerald Lampert Award. Winner of the 1992 Writers Guild of Alberta Award for Poetry
Eyes Like Pigeons, Roberta Rees' long poem, comes back, always, to this: "… Thi' in Vietnamese means poetry." Thi,...
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