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...
Canadian poetry
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Author:Langhorse, BarbaraSummary: - Author:Young, DeannaSummary:
Poems that unfold like liturgy, confronting old violence with a trembling, dignified restraint.
- Author:Skene, Pat, Ross, GrahamSummary:
In Rhyme Stones, we go spelunking, we meet a witch who can't stay on her broomstick, a schoolyard bully, and we see how a simple piece of cloth can become anything we want it to be. Each long poem is followed by an exclusive interview...
- Author:Mayne, Seymour, Huynh, SabineSummary:
Ricochet is a bilingual collection of word sonnets by one of the chief innovators of the form, Seymour Mayne. It includes three sequences of pithy and evocative poems that encapsulate moments of sharp perception while also drawing...
- Author:Lee, DennisSummary:
Deluxe redesign of an aching solo situated at the mid-point of a long, melodious career.
On the occasion of the press’s 40th anniversary, Brick Books is proud to present the third of six new editions of classic books from our...
- Author:J, EvanSummary:
Some poems can live without souls / but mine remain ghastly fools flicking / uncomfortable narratives like / cigarette butts during class change.One out of every twenty students in the adult education classes Evan J teaches in Sioux...
- Author:Barron, JoelleSummary:
On “A Girl Like This Might Have Loved Glenn Gould”: “The poem sits up at its greasy-spoon counter and recounts its tale, a kind of cryptic plain-speech, an inverted code, all the more puzzling for what it plainly says: ‘Under a spell so...
- Author:Owen, CatherineSummary:
Winner of the Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry. In 2010, Catherine Owen's 29-year-old spouse died of a drug addiction. A year later, she relocated to an apartment by the Fraser River in Vancouver, B.C. As she moved beyond...
- Author:Vermette, KatherenaSummary:
Governor General's Award-winning Métis poet and acclaimed novelist Katherena Vermette's second work of poetry, river woman, examines and celebrates love as postcolonial action. Here love is defined as a force of reclamation and repair...
- Author:Di Nardo, AntonySummary:
A turbulent, celebratory flight from an accomplished witness and journeyman.
Antony Di Nardo’s third collection of poems occupies the air between Canada and Lebanon, viewer and painting, victim and triggerman, reader and page....
- Author:Service, Robert W., Gnarowski, MichaelSummary:
The writing of Robert W. Service is mostly known through his poems and ballads. Immortalized by his two iconic ballads, "The Cremation of Sam McGee" and "The Shooting of Dan McGrew," he has entered the world’s...
- Author:Zwicky, JanSummary:
The poems in this book arise from Robinson's Crossing - the place where the railway ends and European settlers arriving in northern Alberta had to cross the Pembina River and advance by wagon or on foot. How have we crossed into this...
- Author:Poirier, ThelmaSummary:
Thelma Poirier writes of the land and its inhabitants – plant, animal, and human – in vivid and loving detail, with deep feeling and authenticity. In poetry that is spare, strong, and unsentimental, she describes the rancher’s life, a...
- Author:Radu, KennethSummary:
In linked poems of great individual power, Kenneth Radu addresses the matter of Romania, the country of his ancestors, summoning figures from myth, distant and recent history, and the arts. The cast of characters includes Dracula,...
- Author:Scott, CamSummary:
Both a daybook of anti-capitalist ideation and a homoerotic reinvention of the prairie long poem, this unique debut resonates with a love of language and experiment. Written from within the strictures of the working day, the book's...
- Author:Nason, JimSummary:
In a world where upside-down politics dovetails with the carnivalesque, a love triangle unfolds between a belligerent Rooster, a happy-go-lucky meth-addicted Dog, and a gender-fluid Crow. Nason's sixth poetry collection goes to the...
- Author:Kavanagh, BasmaSummary:
This book length poem comprises three major interwoven threads: Ahli, an auto/biographical thread about my Lebanese heritage; Astura, a grim tale linking climate change and the oppression of women, and Ana, a reflection on identity,...
- Author:Steski, Carol HarveySummary:
Carol Harvey Steski's tenacious and unapologetic debut, rump + flank, explores the body in nature's many incarnations: human, animal, plant, microbe, even chemical. The result is a fantastical poetic work that sheds light on what bodies...
- Author:Wagamese, RichardSummary:
Having developed an impressive reputation for his many novels and non-fiction works, Richard Wagamese now presents a collection of stunning poems ranging over a broad landscape. He begins with an immersion in the unforgettable world...
- Author:roberts, stephanieSummary:
"those of us who've seen miracles know how to ask. / if you've asked, do you love me, i almost certainly / don't love you." This meditative, musically attentive collection explores the confounding nature of...
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