Radiant is a poetic exploration of one hopeful person's healing journey through cancer-from missed appointment, to mammogram, to diagnosis, to surgery, chemo, and radiation, through hysterectomy, genetic testing through to...
Canadian poetry
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Author:Flaherty, Kate MarshallSummary: - Author:Wingate, ShoshannaSummary:
Radio Weather confronts the changeableness of life—how existence can switch gears with the speed of announced-for snow that turns abruptly to rain. Shoshanna Wingate’s first book runs the gauntlet of her various roles—mother, wife,...
- Author:Robinsong, ErinSummary:
The ecological is personal; the personal is ecological. Rag Cosmology is a pulsating meditation on this most intimate relationship. These poems inject pleasure deep into the tissues of our language and state, countering fatalist...
- Author:Pearson, MirandaSummary:
Tracks and ley-lines pull us, carry us / past Lindisfarne - or an imagined glimpse / drifting holy in the distance, / another reality running through it. A rail is a track, a support, and a barrier. In this collection, spanning the...
- Author:Bradley, NicholasSummary:
Rain Shadow is a collection of poetry that explores the fraught relationship between the natural world and humans yearning to connect with something greater than themselves. The poems range through destabilized lives and landscapes,...
- Author:Laverdure, BertrandSummary:
J'ai souffert, c’est banal. Mon stage personnel chez les humains se déroule sans tragédie, pour le moment. Néanmoins, la douleur sans plaie existe, la douleur des craquements post-relationnels existe. En tant que stagiaire perpétuel...
- Author:Priest, RobertSummary:
Reverse engineering the word, meme splicing, morpheme replacement therapy, phonetic modifications: these are some of the techniques in play throughout Reading the Bible Backwards, the lyrical thought experiments that make up...
- Author:Guttman, NaomiSummary:
Winner of the 1992 A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry (QSPELL, now the Quebec Writers Federation) and shortlisted for the 1991 Pat Lowther Award
Naomi Guttman's first collection of poems marks the appearance of a deeply emotional,...
- Author:Kasper, VancySummary:
Rebel Women begins by moving in and out of women’s kitchens, parlours, meetings, and wagon-rides on the eve and throughout Toronto’s 1837 Rebellion. The poems let the reader eavesdrop on the loves, fears, hatreds, and courage...
- Author:McOrmond, SteveSummary:
Anxious, twitchy, urgent poems-a collection that's at once sardonic and "chronically wishful."
- Author:Hamon, TracySummary:
In a series of poems that move between narrative and lyric, the personas of Austrian artist Egon Schiele and his mistress/model Valerie Neuzil are revealed in exquisite detail. Dividing the work into three sections, equal energy is...
- Author:Carson, AnneSummary:
A continuation of the author's Autobiography of red (1998), following the characters in later life, but in a different style and with changed names.
- Author:Torre, StephanSummary:
A visceral new collection from esteemed poet Stephan Torre, grappling with the strength and complexities of life in the northwest wild lands.
Drawing from a life lived well, amidst hard work and time for reflection in the... - Author:Driedger, DianeSummary:
In this compelling collection of poems and art, the colour of living is red with excitement, pain, sunsets, blood, and tropical flowers. Along the way, the poet paints herself into the works of Frida Kahlo, Vincent Van Gogh, Claude...
- Author:Driedger, DianeSummary:
In this compelling collection of poems and art, the colour of living is red with excitement, pain, sunsets, blood, and tropical flowers. Along the way, the poet paints herself into the works of Frida Kahlo, Vincent Van Gogh, Claude...
- Author:Lee, John B.Summary:
Rediscovered Sheep takes its origin generations ago when an ancestor of John B. Lee began to raise Lincoln sheep in Ontario. John B. may never take up his inheritance as Master of the Flock, but his understanding of sheep...
- Author:Murakami, SachikoSummary:
Render (v.tr.): to submit, as for consideration; to give or make available; to give what is due or owed; to give in return, or retribution; to surrender; to yield. To represent; to perform an interpretation of; to arrange. To express in...
- Author:McEwan, AndrewSummary:
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2013 GERALD LAMPAND MEMORIAL AWARDrepeater is a poetic investigation into the coding, function, language, and structure of computer programming. Using the ASCII 8-bit binary code as an acrostic, each lower-case...
- Author:Moritz, A. F.Summary:
Shortlisted for the 2000 Governor General's Award for Poetry
From the outskirts of the fevered empire, and the embers that were its heart, Moritz sings us to our selves -- our failures, our cruelties, our stupidities, and beauty...
- Author:Langhorse, BarbaraSummary:
How do you rebuild a life? In this unsentimental collection of poems, Barbara Langhorst revisits a violent personal tragedy through startling imagery that rends even as it heals. Restless White Fields is unique, unexpected, and...
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