“In Flanders Fields,” the iconic poem which gives its title to this collection of poems and selected prose, is one of Canada’s — and the world’s — best known poems of the Great War. It was written in 1915 by Canadian John McCrae, an...
Canadian poetry
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Author:McCrae, John, Macphail, Sir Andrew, Gnarowski, MichaelSummary: - Author:Broadbent, LauraSummary:
What do you get when you cross Lao Tzu and an application for a university teaching application' What do you get when you give W. G. Sebald and Clarice Lispector the ability to speak from the afterlife' What happens if a girl...
- Author:Skelton, Robin, Rhenisch, HaroldSummary:
In a country in which poetry has been largely private and apologetic, Robin Skelton played the part of poet with grand style: flowing beard, mane of white hair, rings on every finger, huge amulet around his neck, all topped off with a...
- Author:Fiorentino, Jon PaulSummary:
Jon Paul Fiorentino's new collection is a whip-smart poetic investigation of anxiety in all its many manifestations. Anxiety caused by geography, anxieties of influence and looming worries about loss inform the poems as they weave...
- Author:Kenny, George, Eigenbrod, Renate, Ningewance, Patricia M.Summary:
George Kenny is an Anishinaabe poet and playwright who learned traditional ways from his parents before being sent to residential school in 1958. When Kenny published his first book, 1982’s Indians Don’t Cry, he joined the ranks of...
- Author:Bishop, JoeSummary:
Indie Rock candidly focuses on a queer poet/musician's life in Newfoundland and his personal struggles with addiction, OCD, and trauma. This intelligent and punchy collection is steeped in musicality and the geographies and...
- Author:Howard, LizSummary:
A stunning debut book of poems from a bold new voice unafraid to engage with the exigencies of our contemporary world. In Liz Howard’s wild, scintillating debut, the mechanisms we use to make sense of our worlds – even our direct...
- Author:Abel, JordanSummary:
Jordan Abel’s Injun takes “cut”, “copy”, and “paste” to the public domain – particularly to 92 westerns published during the heyday of pulp publishing between 1840 and 1950, also a period of unfettered colonialism in North America. Abel...
- Author:Hartog, DianaSummary:
“… like Emily Dickinson, Hartog melds the ordinary with the visionary….” — Joseph Stroud, author of Below Cold Mountain and Country of Light
Ink Monkey is Diana Hartog’s first book of poetry in more...
- Author:Porter, MichelleSummary:
In poems that risk the comingling of anger and elegy, poetry and documentation, humour and the dark spectre of poverty, Michelle Porter’s Inquiries oscillates at its edges, and amplifies the presence of human strength as it keeps...
- Author:Solway, DavidSummary:
Installations, David Solway’s 14th book of poetry, is haunted with transformation, Few poets possess as commanding a gift for metaphor or can use it to masterfully conjure the ever-changing landscape of the natural world. Like the jerry...
- Author:Pipar, RosetteSummary:
Ma plume s’affole. Elle déverse son flot de mots exprimant un instant fugace qui éveille en moi une aura irrésistible. Vite, je capte l’effluve avant que, dans le vent, il ne s’évapore. Comme une photo saisie à même la source, une...
- Author:Seymour, DavidSummary:
Shortlisted for the 2006 Gerald Lampert Award
Inter Alia is the long-awaited first collection by one of Canada’s most talented young poets. His work has been widely published in journals and was selected by Lorna Crozier...
- Author:MacLeod, HeatherSummary:
Intermission is an uncommon and refreshing excavation of popular culture, memory, and relationship. It offers startling interpretations of the fashionable sitcoms and young-adult novels which were prevalent during the late 1970s while...
- Author:Whiteman, BruceSummary:
Intimate Letters comprises the seventh book of an ongoing long poem in prose called The Invisible World Is in Decline. Its title borrows from a string quartet by Leoš Jánaček, a profoundly emotional piece written late...
- Author:McCaslin, SusanSummary:
Into the Open: Poems New and Selected is both a compendium and compression of the best and most representative of Susan McCaslin’s poetry over nearly five decades. In addition, it showcases new work. The explorations of Into...
- Author:Bread, Pain NotSummary:
Introduction to the Introduction to the Introduction by André Alexis
For me, reading the Introduction was like being caught in a spring shower while waiting for the 41, and running into a library to get out of the rain...
- Author:Sinaee, BardiaSummary:
In Intruder, acclaimed poet Bardia Sinaee explores with vivid and precise language themes of encroachment in contemporary life.Bemused and droll, paranoid and demagogic, Sinaee's much-anticipated debut collection presents a world...
- Author:Martelly, StéphaneSummary:
Femme de peu de durée, l’auteure s’attache à faire l’inventaire d’un monde qui se dérobe sous ses doigts : objets épars et incomplets, restes d’émotions, bouts de récits entendus ou inventés, bribes de conversations. La poésie de l’...
- Author:Dempster, BarrySummary:
Virtuosic poems tracking two intertwined themes: the breakdown of an obsessive love affair and the vicissitudes of middle age.
Invisible Dogs, Dempster’s fourteenth collection, is a complex but deeply coherent hymn to...
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