I take Liberties-poetic-and take license to relate her story in her voice, to tell history. Who she was-as I hear her say or sing. [...] But still you will come face-to-face with a "Portia," whose life outshines all brilliance this...
Canadian poetry
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Author:Elliott Clarke, GeorgeSummary: - Author:Kroetsch, Robert, Eso, David, van Herk, ArithaSummary:
Post-glacial is a collection of poems by Robert Kroetsch selected by his former student David Eso. The book features Kroetsch's iconic collection, Completed Field Notes, alongside rare work gathered from different stages of...
- Author:David MénardSummary:
je me balancerai entre mes visions de pourpre et ma furie sublime dans ma cage de soleil David Ménard a publié un roman, Nous aurons vécu nous non plus, et deux recueils de poésie aux Editions L'Interligne. Neuvaines,...
- Author:Atwood, MargaretSummary:
Margaret Atwood's Power Politics first appeared in 1971, startling its audience with its vital dance of woman and man. It still startles, and is just as iconoclastic as ever. These poems occupy all at once the intimate, the political,...
- Author:Greco, HeidiSummary:
These poems dwell in the hearth of domesticity, but they look beyond the confines of the home with clear eyes. Boldly unafraid, they confront the realities of climate change, the desecration of habitat, some quiet truths about aging and...
- Author:Bramer, ShannonSummary:
Precious Energy, the fourth collection of poetry from Hamilton-born poet and playwright Shannon Bramer, is a uniquely playful collection of vibrantly sad, peculiar, and often funny poems about domestic life, motherhood, and the baffled...
- Author:Priest, RobertSummary:
Daring new verse from one of Canada's most-established poets
Previously Feared Darkness picks up and pulls at the vibrant threads of Robert Priest's last collection, Reading the Bible Backwards. One...
- Author:Pearson, MirandaSummary:
In Prime, Miranda Pearsons first collection of poetry, the narratives of female identity, the white wedding, and the enshrined position of the mother are interrogated, using the lyric as a form of cultural critique in an examination and...
- Author:Tierney, MatthewSummary:
Winner of the Trillium Book Award for Poetry (2013) If it were necessary to tell someone where I am, I’d say the spheres of Kepler resonate like icicles. I’d say I have loved. These are high-energy poems, riddled with wit and...
- Author:Downe, LiseSummary:
Propositions and Prayers, Lise Downe's first book of poetry in nine years, is a collection in two parts: "Propositions" is a series of short poems-as-possibilities, structured by the compression of images and voices to convey an urgency...
- Author:Bouchard, DavidSummary:
This collection of lyrical poems and songs from bestselling author David Bouchard gives a voice to important figures in Métis history from the 17th century to the present day.
- Author:Betts, GregorySummary:
Psychic Geographies is a tour de force, an ambitious exploration of the age, its physical and emotional permutations, its tragic contradictions, its joyful transformations. Gregory Betts takes a construct from the Situationists of the...
- Author:Guriel, JasonSummary:
In his second book of poems, Jason Guriel cuts a dazzling figurewhip-smart, charismatic, with a mischievousness always eager to play for more serious stakes. Guriels way of seeing the world is low-key and sly: he tries to show us the...
- Author:Woo, ElaineSummary:
This is a book of the inner sea. Language, concept, and form alternate holding the depths. That broken diamond of sun on rough waters: she speaks egalitarian. That cool glass of viridian water just within reach of the surface: water...
- Author:Joseph, EveSummary:
These short, condensed prose poems demonstrate that the illogical has a logic of its own, and that the "real is underpinned by the surreal, rather than the other way around.
- Author:Joseph, EveSummary:
WINNER, 2019 GRIFFIN POETRY PRIZE
The poems in this collection reach for something other than truth, the marvelous. Leaves fall out of coat sleeves, Gandhi swims in Burrard Inlet. The poems are like empty coats from which the...
- Author:Franco, Tanis, 1986-Summary:
Spaces are not exterior to bodies. They influence and affect the way bodies exist in the world. A quarry is an unnatural place within a natural territory. At any moment, it can be abandoned. A body is not separate from the spaces it...
- Author:Murray, GeorgeSummary:
The highly anticipated follow-up to the wildly popular Glimpse Quick is George Murray's second collection of aphorisms-a form that straddles the lines between poetry, philosophy, humour, and prose. He describes these pieces as "poetic...
- Author:Christensen, AndréeSummary:
Andrée Christensen nous invite à pénétrer dans son jardin, véritable atelier à ciel ouvert et source inépuisable de réflexions et de méditations sur le visible et l’invisible. Elle nous dévoile un monde de contrastes entre la terre qui...
- Author:Kenyon, MichaelSummary:
Michael Kenyon's Rack of Lamb is a compelling study in voice. Organized loosely around various foods, the book brings together the voices of several women and a young girl, all from the same community but representing various...
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