Les jours tigrés sont la chronique d’un double deuil, chacun raidissant la douleur de l’autre, l’empêchant de se liquider dans la vie qui reste. Mais il faut penser à l’avenir, le sentir, le refaire et accueillir toutes les bouées de...
Canadian poetry
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Author:Ross, Diane-IschaSummary: - Author:Oliver, AlexandraSummary:
In her second book, Alexandra Oliver takes us on a journey of escape from the suburbs of Canada to Glasgow, Scotland. Training her eye on the locals-on the streets, by rivers, in museums, on playgrounds, in their own homes, in the ill-...
- Author:Shillington, JoanSummary:
Joan Shillington's third poetry collection, Let This Lake Remember - explores the loss of childhood innocence and fragility of life. From glorious moments to a tragic accident these poems reveal, through landscape influences, how...
- Author:Cohen, LeonardSummary:
Published to immediate acclaim in 1956 when he was twenty-two years old, this is Leonard Cohen's first book and contains poems written between the ages of fifteen and twenty.
- Author:Midgley, PeterSummary:
Peter Midgley’s let us not think of them as barbarians is a bold narrative of love, migration, and war hewn from the stones of Namibia. Sensual and intimate, these evocative poems fold into each other to renew and undermine multiple...
- Author:Scheier, JacobSummary:
In Letter from Brooklyn, Jacob Scheier examines love, loss, history, identity, protest, and popular culture. At the heart of his new poems is the notion that we understand who we are by where we have been. Here, a confessional...
- Author:Radu, KennethSummary:
The writer of the letter in Kenneth Radu's title poem is reaching across an enormous silence: from a microchipped contemporary Canadian setting to the rest home on the Black Sea where his father is dying; and then even further, back to...
- Author:Dempster, BarrySummary:
Tuning a fine ear to Lawrence’s letters from 1906 until his death in 1930, Barry Dempster’s poems uncover the man within the myth and give voice to Lawrence’s passionate mortality. Dempster’s act is one of imagination and homage, a kind...
- Author:Howard, Liz.Summary:
The latest from the author of the Griffin Poetry Prize Award-winning collection Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent . Griffin Poetry Prize, Finalist. I have to believe my account will outpace its ending. The danger and necessity of...
- Author:Filteau, Catherine, Laverdure, BertrandSummary:
Résumé Que serait Montréal sans la souveraineté de ses arbres ? L'arbre est politique. Bertrand Laverdure sait parler aux arbres. Sans eux, les femmes et les hommes perdraient leur chemin et leur cœur. Une musique infinie, un...
- Author:Baril Pelletier, FrançoisSummary:
Le désir t'attend comme une fleur dont naîtra le fruit. La grenade de ton cœur est pleine, prête à éclater.
- Author:McGimpsey, DavidSummary:
Finalist for the 2012 Governor General's Award for Poetry David McGimpsey's fifth collection of poems takes to new levels the melding of the deeply personal and the culturally popular that drove his acclaimed book Sitcom (nominated for...
- Author:Crosbie, LynnSummary:
At once casting aside and reinventing the confessional mode, Liar is a booklength monument to love found, betrayed, renounced, and ultimately accepted as transformative. The white-hot immediacy of detail and scorching emotional honesty...
- Author:Mirolla, MichaelSummary:
Michael Mirolla's poetic world is one where a mirror, or any simple reflective item is tilted ever so slightly, providing an opening to places we never imagined existed. (One of them is his own birth, from the inside, looking...
- Author:Joosten, JulieSummary:
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2014 GOVERNOR GENERAL'S AWARD FOR POETRYShortlisted for the 2014 Gerald Lampert Memorial AwardFinalist for the 2014 Goldie Awards: Poetry CategoryMoving from the Enlightenment science of natural history to the...
- Author:Martin, DavidSummary:
At the close of the twenty-first century, a prison population awaits transport to a world where their memories will be Cleaned, and where they will be Harmonized into the language of New English, made up of only 850 words. One person,...
- Author:Robertson, LisaSummary:
Verses, essays, confessions, reports, translations, drafts, treatises, laments and utopias, 1995–2007. Collected by Elisa Sampedrin. Lisa Robertson writes poems that mine the past — its ideas, its personages, its syntax — to construct a...
- Author:Barbour, DouglasSummary:
first snow falling slow hangs in the air a curtain drifting there thickening sight —“Winter” In this new collection, Douglas Barbour experiments with what he calls “rhythmically intense open form.” Listen. If presents technically...
- Author:Colman, RobertSummary:
Through the rapidly altered perspectives of romantic relationship and the demands of economic recession, Little Empires pursues what it means to own your changing landscape. In a deft and pithy, elegantly nuanced and urbane style,...
- Author:Younsi, OuanessaSummary:
Born to a French-Canadian mother and Algerian father, Ouanessa Younsi is a bold and unique voice in modern Francophone poetry. In this intensely personal recitation on identity and ethnicity, Younsi takes the reader on a surreal odyssey...
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