In Obits. a speaker tries and fails to write obituaries for those whose memorials are missing, those who are represented only as statistics. She considers victims of mass deaths, fictional characters, and her own aunt, asking what does...
Canadian poetry
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Author:Liem, TessSummary: - Author:Goyette, SusanSummary:
Sue Goyette propose dans ce livre étonnant rien de moins que la biographie de l’Océan! La poète de Halifax réinvente l’univers de l’Atlantique Nord à coups d’images et de métaphores percutantes, de nouveaux mythes et de légendes...
- Author:Souaid, Carolyn MarieSummary:
1970. The FLQ has kidnapped and murdered Pierre Laporte. For the narrator, growing up in those days meant living through one of the darkest episodes in Canadian history—a time when army tanks rolled through the streets and bombings and...
- Author:Warner, PatrickSummary:
As apt to channel the confessionalism of Anne Sexton as the red-in-tooth-and-claw nature poetry of Ted Hughes, Patrick Warner's voice ranges freely from the colloquial to the baroque. Over the past fifteen years, by harboring and...
- Author:Jean, BrigitteSummary:
Qui se souviendra de nos amours Et de l'ardeur de nos combats? Qui se souviendra dans les siècles à venir Et les grands espaces du temps Des héros guerriers de la Grèce et de Troie Nous avions la fougue et la vigueur des vivants Mais...
- Author:Fletcher, Edward TaylorSummary:
Edward Taylor Fletcher was born in England in 1817 and arrived in Canada as a young boy. An important figure in Canadian literature, Fletcher's writing was almost entirely forgotten by history. In this volume, James Gifford has gathered...
- Author:Kerr, ConorSummary:
Métis Ukrainian writer Conor Kerr's sharp and incisive poems move restlessly across landscapes and time. Conor Kerr's poetry is in constant motion. 4Runners streak through the night, racing with coyotes and roving across the land. Buses...
- Author:Marty, SidSummary:
Sid Mary is a voice to be reckoned with. Beloved for his intimate, lyrical poetry, Marty's depiction of selfhood, connection to place and to landscape have proven him a unique and dissenting voice in Canadian literature as well as...
- Author:Price, StevenSummary:
Winner of the 2013 ReLit award for poetry
Omens, curses, the reading of entrails: means of grappling
with what is out of our hands, beyond our ken.Steven Price’s second collection is part of a long-lived struggle...
- Author:Surkan, NeilSummary:
All songs have skin, / all skin has holes. On High, Neil Surkan's debut collection of poetry, searches for spirits in myriad places. Wondering how, why, and when to act with a conscience, speakers try out steep hikes, strong drugs...
- Author:Bluger, MarianneSummary:
Marianne Bluger knows what it is to be at sea; oceans of sad and beautiful possibilities wash her poems. And she feels the warmth and fixity of anchorage in home. Tender by nature but tough at need, her language deftly negotiates a...
- Author:Harrison, RichardSummary:
In his final years, Richard Harrison's father suffered from a form of dementia, but he died without ever forgetting the poems he had memorized as a student and had taught to Richard as a child. In 2013, the poet feared his father's...
- Author:Psenak, Stefan, D'Alfonso, AntonioSummary:
On Order and Things is the story of an impossible love between a man and a woman. Confused characters living in a senseless world where love and creativity are irrelevant. This poetic narrative is for all of us.
- Author:Betasamosake Simpson, Leanne, Des Rochers, Arianne, Kanapé Fontaine, NatashaSummary:
Traduit de l'anglais par Arianne Des Rochers et Natasha Kanapé Fontaine Résumé Dans ce deuxième recueil visionnaire, qui constitue la suite de Cartographie de l'amour décolonial (2018), Simpson déploie de nouveau le...
- Author:Forrest, Cole, Borgford, KelseySummary:
Illustrated poetry collection. Once The Smudge Is Lit is a collection of poems written by Nbisiing authors Cole Forrest and Kelsey Borgford. The creative non-fiction collection highlights the experience of Indigeneity in post-colonial...
- Author:Conley, TimSummary:
One False Move is Tim Conley’s debut collection of poetry. As it tightropes along meaning in language, our understandings of, and relationships with, one another, and even our continued survival, it balances elegance with clumsiness,...
- Author:Currie, RobertSummary:
What begins as a look back at a different time in history quickly takes a dark turn in Bob Currie’s latest collection. Embodying a variety of characters, often in different voices – both those of well-known classic poets as well as the...
- Author:Epp, RogerSummary:
Roger Epp's poetic meditations about the minor miracles, the difficulties, and the loneliness of leading a small university campus through a time of significant change are depicted in a series of elegant yet understated prose pieces,...
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Included in this unparalleled collection are Christian Bok, Anne Carson, and Erin Moure, whose experiments with genre have landed them international acclaim; Lisa Robertson and Ken Babstock, whose explorations of the pastoral and the...
- Author:Surani, MoezSummary:
From poet-provocateur Moez Surani comes Operations—a book-length poetic inventory of contemporary rhetoric of violence and aggression, as depicted through the evolution of the language used to name the many military operations conducted...
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