Invisible Lives chronicles cycles of dysfunction and domestic violence. Using experimental hybrid poetry, Cristalle Smith breaks generational silence in lyric resonance, reflecting on a childhood rife with upheaval and poverty, the...
Canadian poetry
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Author:Smith, CristalleSummary: - Author:Frutkin, MarkSummary:
Of one of Mark Frutkin's previous books of verse, Poetry Canada Review said it provided "a supernatural fusion of the earthbound with the heavenly to forge the lightning of poetry." Divided into two sections, one inspired...
- Author:Tucker, AaronSummary:
With an Introduction by World Chess Champion Jennifer ShahadeIn 1968, avant-garde artist Marcel Duchamp and composer John Cage exhibited Reunion, a chess performance that took place in Toronto. Whenever Duchamp or Cage moved a piece, it...
- Author:Merasty, FrancineSummary:
Iskotew Iskwew: Poetry of a Northern Rez Girl is a poetry collection written during a period of trauma while the author was working as a statement taker and Counsel to the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and...
- Author:Shafi, HanaSummary:
It Begins With The Body by Hana Shafi explores the milestones and hurdles of a brown girl coming into her own. Shafi's poems display a raw and frank intimacy and address anxiety, unemployment, heartbreak, relationships, identity,...
- Author:simpson, jayeSummary:
it was never going to be okay is a collection of poetry and prose exploring the intimacies of understanding intergenerational trauma, Indigeneity and queerness, while addressing Urban Indigenous Diaspora and breaking down the...
- Author:Jeanette LynesSummary:
In this, her fourth book of poetry, one of Canada's best-loved poets takes on one of the most compelling divas of our time. In sixty-one audacious poems, Jeanette Lynes re-imagines and reanimates the peripatetic art, life, and...
- Author:Deerchild, RosannaSummary:
-nitotamahk k sik is a poetry collection in Cree that describes deep personal experiences and post-generational effects of the Canadian Aboriginal residential school confinements in the 1960's when thousands of First Nations, M tis...
- Author:Conn, JanSummary:
Jaguar Rain is a rare text: at once a book of stand-alone poems and a work of scholarship, with textual notes and bibliography. Written in the voice of Margaret Mee (naturalist, explorer, and painter of flowers in the Amazon...
- Author:Lefrançois, Alexis, St-Pierre, DenisSummary:
Le « toujours merveilleux poète Alexis Lefrançois », comme le présentait récemment Hugues Corriveau dans Le Devoir, nous lance une invitation avec son recueil : Je vous rejoindrai au teminus vide. Alexis Lefrançois décrit l’éphémère...
- Author:Sherman, KennethSummary:
A poetic masterclass from a writer at the height of his craft Kenneth Sherman's work has always displayed a vibrant lyricism, so it's no surprise that his powerful new collection contains a number of poems with musical motifs. In such...
- Author:Langlois, JocelyneSummary:
Jocelyne Langlois est auteure, artiste peintre, conférencière et traductrice. Voici son troisième recueil de poésie, faisant suite à Ces ombres qui nous caressent et La confrérie des poètes retrouvés. Il comporte huit...
- Author:Van Der Meer, CarolyneSummary:
Journeywoman is the story in poems of the explicitly female journey made by women through girlhood, motherhood and beyond. The play on the word journeyman is intentional with the notion of completing an apprenticeship and...
- Author:Trainor, KimSummary:
A remarkable debut that expresses a humanism grounded in physiology.
At the heart of Karyotype is the Beauty of Loulan, a woman who lived four thousand years ago, her body preserved in the cool, dry sands of the...
- Author:Dickinson, AdamSummary:
Shortlisted for the 2007 Trillium Book Award for Poetry
Ecologically aware poems, hardwired to the intellect and the heart in equal measure.
Adam Dickinson’s poems, with firm intellectual bite and imaginative scope, reach...
- Author:McDonald, JohnSummary:
The Neyhiyawak (Plains Cree) word "Kitotam" translates into English as, "He Speaks to It." This is a collection of free-verse poetry by Indigenous poet and artist John McDonald. Written in two parts, these poems chronicle John's life...
- Author:Major, AliceSummary:
What portents must you divine when a knife falls from the sky into your snow-covered yard? From the bitumen hills of Fort McMurray to the barren reaches of Iceland, Knife on Snow depicts an earth bathed in dragon’s breath, where like...
- Author:Richardson, RobinSummary:
Sexy, irreverent, and inventive
Lovesick Stormtroopers, dowsing Girl Guides, movie stars, pool hustlers, and the mad queen Ranavalona … With Knife Throwing Through Self–Hypnosis, Robin Richardson charts a path...
- Author:Nichol, bpSummary:
Better break out your sledgehammer - it's time for a little concrete! Concrete poetry, that is. Concrete what? Well, it's poetry that's a lot like art - its meaning comes from what it looks like instead of the order of the words, so it'...
- Author:Fournier, JamesieSummary:
In this complex, at times dark, poetry collection from Inuk author Jamesie Fournier, readers are taken through the recesses of a character struggling with inner demons whispering into his mind. As he attempts to overcome his inner...
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