By turns quirky, startling, earthy, and hope-filled, Micheline Maylor’s poems slip effortlessly through topics ranging from what we give up as we age to regrets for love that has passed, the interplay between the animal world and human...
Canadian poetry
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Author:Maylor, MichelineSummary: - Author:McElroy, GilSummary:
Long Division is a book of poetic commentary that plots a steady course of disillusion. Working in explicit dialogue with Dada, the surrealist poets, spiritual writing, and drawing on midrash as a wellspring, Gil McElroy captures in...
- Author:Rappaport, HenrySummary:
These poems lead the reader into a world that reveals a balancing act between the familiar and known, the mysterious and wild. Some poems are narrative, some imagistic meditations, and some are small, playful pieces that edge into...
- Author:Barton, JohnSummary:
A bold experiment in autobiography, Lost Family: A Memoir is a book of sonnets that centres around the deaths of John Barton's parents and sister, but also tracks much of the poet's early life in Alberta through to a...
- Author:Glenn, Lorri NeilsenSummary:
Poems of great loss and deep questioning, wringing beauty out of potential despair.
In the opening poem of Lost Gospels, Lorri Neilsen Glenn writes of Mahalia Jackson and Blind Willie Johnson:
… they sang, oh yes...
- Author:Goldstein, David B.Summary:
Translation is the extrovert, metaphor the introvert. Without translation, there is no communication. Without metaphor, there is no art.Lost Originals, the latest collection of poetry from writer and scholar David Goldstein, explores...
- Author:Dempster, BarrySummary:
A love affair chronicled – from obsession to heartbreak, foolhardiness to faith.
In Love Outlandish, Barry Dempster undoes all the clichés that have barnacled our love lives and, with the zest and courage typical of his...
- Author:Charlebois, ÉricSummary:
Entre le doute et l’espoir, entre l’effroi et le désir, entre la densité et l’intensité, il y a tout le confort de l’incertitude. L’argile et le marbre y cisaillent l’éther. Le tu et le je y sculptent un nous en quête de socle. Chaque...
- Author:Quartermain, MeredithSummary:
A train trip across Canada; a trek back in time.
- Author:Fitch, Sheree, Smith, SydneySummary:
What if there was a purple planet with purple people on it? Sheree Fitch answers this question with a zany tongue-twister of a poem featuring Mabel Murple, a daredevil who rides a purple motorbike through purple puddles, skis on purple...
- Author:Kellough, KaieSummary:
For readers of Danez Smith--an inventive and formally daring work from poet, novelist, and sound performer Kaie Kellough. The poems in Kaie Kellough's untitled third collection are inhabited by migration and distance. They are ghosts...
- Author:Hajnoczky, HelenSummary:
The word "magyarAzni" (pronounced MAUDE-yar-az-knee) means "to explain" in Hungarian, but translates literally as "make it Hungarian." This faux-Hungarian language primer, written in direct address, invites readers to experience what it...
- Author:Mercredi, DuncanSummary:
mahikan ka onot collects the finest work of accomplished Indigenous poet Duncan Mercredi, from his first book in 1991 to recent unpublished poems. These are poems of life on the land as well as life in the city, vibrant with the rhythms...
- Author:Moritz, A. F.Summary:
Few artists (one thinks of Rilke and Hopkins) have presumed to evoke the spirit of embodied Nature. A. F. Moritz not only succeeds in thus animating a living world, but he deals with our human presence and assault on it with sympathy...
- Author:Hebert, Louis-PhilippeSummary:
Marie Réparatrice, c'est cette petite fille de huit ans qui découvre qu'elle a un don. Quelque chose d'unique lui permet de faire ce qu'on aurait appelé autrefois des miracles. Et ces miracles se réalisent pour permettre à ceux qu'elle...
- Author:Christy, JimSummary:
The poetry in Marimba Forever is concerned with love and longing, which the author displays in all their multifarious guises. Many of the poems can be regarded as small films: nourish, action, farce or slapstick; others call music to...
- Author:Hoogland, CorneliaSummary:
Near the centre of Marrying the Animals, Cornelia Hoogland’s new book of poetry, is the sequence “In the Meantime: Elizabeth Smart Poems” Hoogland’s exploration of Smart’s obsession with the poet George Barker is an apt heart...
- Author:Keefer, Janice KulykSummary:
Winner of the 1999 CAA Canadian Authors Association Award for Poetry and shortlisted for the 1999 Pat Lowther Award
Fantasies and meditations on friendship and on love: erotic, romantic, tormented, spurned, married, illicit,...
- Author:Amabile, GeorgeSummary:
George Amabile's eleventh book and newest collection of poetry explores the relationships between civilization, technology, empire and human violence, theatres of war, the collateral damage of military occupation, the machinations...
- Author:Dawson, KaninaSummary:
"The Afghan cooks arrive at camp before dawn so they don't get their heads cut off after work. That can happen if they're not careful."
It is six years since Canadian forces began their long struggle to hold Kandahar province....
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