A masterful poet extends his range, bringing both his agile intelligence and musical acuity into play.
Afloat, John Reibetanz’s eighth collection of poetry, focuses on water in many manifestations. The centerpiece, a...
Canadian poetry
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Author:Reibetanz, JohnSummary: - Author:Kolewe, R.Summary:
Lovers wrote letters. Letters crossed absence, longing, joy, passion, loss and heartbreak. Sometimes letters were answered. Sometimes not. And sometimes not for years, but then – In 1948, in the exhausted aftermath of WWII, the poets...
- Author:Cook, GeoffreySummary:
The belief in translation as an act of self-portraiture drives Afterwords, Geoffrey Cook's ambitious reimagining of German poems by Goethe, Heine, Rilke and Brecht. Cook's versions not only transform these foreign texts into...
- Author:Garebian, KeithSummary:
A delve into the personal history of a man affected by the Armenian genocide and the ways he makes Canada home. The poetic lines and strong emotional tug of the book outline the long lasting effects of trauma and what it means to remake...
- Author:Briesmaster, AllanSummary:
Through a dazzling variety of poetic forms and styles, this book restlessly explores such themes as identity, personal growth, love and friendship, Canadian landscape, climate change, visual art, and the roots of poetry itself, in moods...
- Author:Parrish, RhondaSummary:
Air is essential for life. The need for air is so important that breathing is instinctual. Yet Air is unstable and capricious, blowing gently as a summer breeze in one moment and blasting with the fury of a tornado in the next. No...
- Author:Kinney, IanSummary:
Ian Kinney fell seven stories, and he survived. In Air Salt Kinney (un)writes his hospitalization and recovery, using poetry as neuro-rehabilitation. A memoir written by an amnesiac, this collection stitches splintered narratives with...
- Author:Pittman, AlSummary:
From the publication of his first collection, The Elusive Resurrection, in 1966, to his death in 2001 at the age of sixty-one, Al Pittman stood as one of the most respected and admired poets in Newfoundland. This definitive edition...
- Author:Nowlan, Alden, Musgrave, SusanSummary:
The best of beloved poet Alden Nowlan's explicitly honest, direct, and insightful poetry. Now featuring an introduction by Susan Musgrave Alden Nowlan, one of Canada's finest and most influential poets, died in 1983. He leaves a rich...
- Author:Gagné, DominicSummary:
Simplement se souvenir de l’existence des rivières, des montagnes, de son nom et de son corps qui s’absentent un peu plus chaque jour ; malgré la pluie, elle avance direction Mémoire, franchit la distance qui la sépare des mots abandon...
- Author:Ito, SallySummary:
Plunging deep into the soul, Sally Ito renders a spiritual examination like no other in her new poetry collection, Alert to Glory. With this cohesive meditation of creativity, motherhood and poetry, Ito discerns spiritual gifts in daily...
- Author:Di Nardo, AntonySummary:
These astute, generous poems give us contemporary Beirut in all its ravaged and incongruent beauty.
This arresting first collection is, in part, a delicately balanced look at Beirut from the perspective of a Westerner who lives...
- Author:Fiorito, JoeSummary:
All I Have Learned Is Where I Have Been, Joe Fiorito's second collection, establishes him as the preeminent chronicler of people in extremis. Drawing on the precison and unsentimentality that have become hallmarks of his poetry,...
- Author:Leyton, KatherineSummary:
Katherine Leyton's fresh and vibrant debut collection takes on the sexual politics of the twenty-first century, boldly holding up a mirror to the male gaze and interrogating the nature of images and illusions. Confronting the forces of...
- Author:McCarthy, JuliaSummary:
Grounded in the experience of presence in which the external and internal meet, a crossroads of consciousness where “a language without a name / remembers us” and the poem is a votive act, All the Names Between reflects the shadow-light...
- Author:Lee, DennisSummary:
Thirty-seven nonsense verses on a variety of topics include "Thinking In Bed," "On Tuesdays I Polish My Uncle," and "Billy Batter."
- Author:Woodcock, PatrickSummary:
Like an embedded journalist, Patrick Woodcock writes his poetry from the front lines of experience.
From cities reeling from the trauma of siege warfare to the stifling heat and politics of the Arabian Peninsula to the darkest...
- Author:Bouchard, AngélineSummary:
Amalg’âme est le premier récit de cette tendre aventure où je me suis arrêtée sur le parcours de ma vie ainsi que sur la voie du rêve et de l’imaginaire. Ce recueil est né du plaisir même du voyage et du désir de le partager. Qui sait,...
- Author:Worth, LizSummary:
Filtered through insomnia and distress signals, Amphetamine Heart pumps out an atonal pulse over flashes of lowered inhibitions. Channelling punk and heavy metal influences, this poetry collection’s soundtrack is set to a backdrop of...
- Author:Kirton, JónínaSummary:
An Honest Woman by Jónína Kirton confronts us with beauty and ugliness in the wholesome riot that is sex, love, and marriage. From the perspective of a mixed-race woman, Kirton engages with Simone de Beauvoir and Donald Trump to unravel...
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