Nominated for Gay Poetry (2009 Lambda Literary Awards). A journey in search of love through the contemporary homoerotic male body. Improvising on a variety of poetic forms and traversing disparate landscapes - from Belfast to the clear-...
Canadian poetry
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Author:Barton, JohnSummary: - Author:Désy, JeanSummary:
Résumé Le chant explose, navigue les territoires et les corps. Le poème hurle l'amour, casse les digues, roule d'écho en écho. «Je n'ai pas grand conseil à donner. J'aime aimer, de toutes mes forces. » Extrait...
- Author:Blythe, AliSummary:
In "Hymnswitch", Blythe takes up the themes of identity and the body once again, casting an eye backwards and forwards, visiting places of recovery and wrestling with the transition into one's own skin. Readers will find themselves...
- Author:Mason-John, ValerieSummary:
Valerie Mason-John's poetry collection, I Am Still Your Negro, blends spoken word and hashtags with villanelles, sonnets, and haiku to traverse the African Diaspora experience through place, time, and circumstance. Blak Inglis street...
- Author:Nolan NatashaSummary:
Intimate, nostalgic, and surprising, the poems in I Can Hear You, Can You Hear Me? spark connections that alter trajectory and carry lasting resonance. Encounters across phone lines, over drinks, through walkie-talkies, and unspoken...
- Author:Pierson, Ruth RoseSummary:
Although poetry is one of the oldest art forms and cinema one of the youngest, a symbiosis exists between the two -- an interchange of metaphor, rhythm, point-of-view. No surprise, then, that so many contemporary poets write about film...
- Author:John, Aisha SashaSummary:
This finalist for the 2018 Scotiabank Giller Prize is ablaze with urgency and radiant inquiry from a 2015 finalist for the Trillium Book Award for Poetry.
A demand and promise; an obligation and challenge; a protest and call: I...
- Author:Thomas, RebeccaSummary:
In Mi'kmaw, three similarly shaped words have drastically different meanings: kesalul means "I love you"; kesa'lul means "I hurt you"; and ke'sa'lul means "I put you into the fire." Spoken word artist Rebecca Thomas' first poetry...
- Author:Gould, NoraSummary:
Winner of the 2013 Robert Kroetsch Edmonton Book Prize
and the Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry (Writers Guild of Alberta)Shortlisted for Gerald Lampert Memorial Award
and a finalist for the High Plains Book... - Author:Bissett, Bill, Acorn, MiltonSummary:
Published in its intended form for the first time, I Want to Tell You Love is a remarkable collaboration from bill bissett and Milton Acorn that captures the spirit of the sixties. bill bissett and Milton Acorn are two of Canada's most...
- Author:Zits, PaulSummary:
An intimate poetic interrogation of restrictive masculinity from award-winning author Paul Zits. He has outlived his usefulness. He is stressed, over-produced, and in crisis. He is searching for a role in modern society. So he is...
- Author:Thomas, RebeccaSummary:
I'm finding my talk And it may take some time, But I'm learning to speak In a language that's mine. A response to Rita Joe's iconic poem "I Lost My Talk," and published simultaneously with the new children's book edition illustrated by...
- Author:Elmslie, SusanSummary:
Winner of the 2006 A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry and shortlisted for the McAuslan First Book Prize (Quebec Writers’ Federation).
Shortlisted for the 2007 Pat Lowther Award and the 2007 ReLit Awards.Poems that reach towards...
- Author:Lefrançois, Alexis, Jean, MarcelSummary:
Alexis Lefrançois ne se rattache à aucune chapelle littéraire. Sa poésie nous entraîne aux portes de l’indicible, de ce qui pourrait être l’éblouissement du silence, quand tout a été dit. Au-delà de nos vaines certitudes, dans le...
- Author:Barclay, AdeleSummary:
If I Were In A Cage I'd Reach Out For You is a collection that travels through both time and place, liminally occupying the chasm between Canadiana and Americana mythologies. These poems dwell in surreal pockets of the everyday...
- Author:Fitch, ShereeSummary:
A Sheree Fitch classic, the Silver Birch - and Hackmatack Award-winning children's picture book about children's rights, If You Could Wear My Sneakers, is now available for a new generation of young readers. A series of humorous poems,...
- Author:Shaffran, RonSummary:
Speaking a language we understand, Rona Shaffran's poems tell the story of remarkable things that can happen in a broken relationship. These poems inhabit the sharp edges and rich depths of a union too long untended. Ignite begins...
- Author:Simić, GoranSummary:
Immigrant Blues, an extension and deepening of the famous poems of the siege of Sarajevo translated in Simic's Sprinting from the Graveyard (Oxford, 1997), explores the personal and the public devastations of war, especially its...
- Author:Stallworthy, BobSummary:
Impact Statement is a book of transitions.Transitions that are brought about by a catastrophic health situation. Transitions in life brought on by facing the potential for death and dying to happen at any time; being desperate enough to...
- Author:Wolff, ElanaSummary:
The thirty-three authors whose poems appear in this collection are: Jonathan Bennett, Rosemary Blake, Allan Briesmaster, Robin Blackburn, Clara Blackwood, James Clarke, Ron Charach, Margaret Christakos, Antonio D'Alfonso, Christopher...
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