Joe Fiorito spent 18 hours in total, over the course of three days, on the corner of Victoria and Queen in downtown Toronto watching the city go by and recording what he saw. The rhythms of the city ebb and flow according to the time of...
Canadian poetry
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Author:Fiorito, JoeSummary: - Author:Millaire, ArmandeSummary:
Adepte du camping depuis 2001, vivant sous les palmiers durant l’hiver et dans les pommes en été, elle vous invite à goûter chaque jour qui passe en savourant toute la beauté de la Nature. Elle vous invite à partager son idéal de vie,...
- Author:Okoko, AkenaSummary:
12 ans passent Vite comme 12 heures Dans la peau d'un jeune métis Mordu de basket Qui croit en croire Vite comme se faire des amis Quand on déménage Vite comme oublier Un été de rêve Qui ressemble à tous les autres Vite...
- Author:Drobnies, AdrienneSummary:
Out of dried tears and burnt matter comes fertile ground; new nourishment. These are poems that transform the vocabulary of science, its language and concepts, into poems that encounter the natural world with quietly impassioned and new...
- Author:Martonfi, IlonaSummary:
The poems in this collection are sculpted like carnallite crystals and come together as elegiac meditations, drawing on history, and on mythology. Beauty and pathos are wound in a tangle of exile, and find a home. Offering free verse,...
- Author:Barkhouse, JanetSummary:
Salt Fires is a volume of poems that embrace and reflect our human consciousness: our awareness, our blindness, our Shadow, our mythologies. They invite us to look at ourselves in ways that often are disconcerting, sometimes startling....
- Author:Mancini, DonatoSummary:
Same Diff by Donato Mancini meets at the intersection of contemporary poetry, art, and current politics. Influenced by documentary cinema such as the films of Frederic Wiseman, Dada poets, montage techniques, and a range of poets who...
- Author:Guriel, JasonSummary:
Satisfying Clicking Sound is a book that’s never afraid to make a show of itself. In his third collection, Jason Guriel gives us a quick-thinking colloquial style that segues deftly from deadpan wit to deep emotion. Like the hard-to-...
- Author:Undi, ChimwemweSummary:
Finalist, 2024 Governor General's Literary Award for Poetry Marked by rhythmic drive, humour, and surprise, Undi's poems consider what is left out from the history and ongoing realities of Winnipeg, Manitoba. Firmly grounded in the...
- Author:Sinclair, SueSummary:
Shortlisted for the 2002 Gerald Lampert Award
Cumulus
These are the carriers.
Their large, mild bodies make us think
of domesticity, of milk. Mammalian
they hold the rain in their bellies, a generous... - Author:Coupal, ChelseaSummary:
While much of small-town living remains the same: farming is always reliant on the weather regardless of new technology, after all, there is a sense of urgency and a need to escape in Chelsea’s poetry; her stories of growing up on the...
- Author:Gould, NoraSummary:
Finalist for the 2017 Governor General’s Award for Poetry and
Shortlisted for the 2017 Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry (Writers Guild of Alberta Award)A long poem that limns the incremental mourning of living with...
- Author:Hutchman, LaurenceSummary:
"Laurence Hutchman's poetry is a witness to the world around him, to the patterns of families, nations, and landscape. He hears Mozart in the supermarket, and Nelligan breaking into song. While there's a refreshingly outward-looking...
- Author:Heighton, StevenSummary:
This collection of new and previously published poems by Steven Heighton, author of the Governor General's Literary Award winner The Waking Comes Late, showcases a defining lyric poet of his generation. Selected Poems 1983-2020 is...
- Author:Cogswell, FredSummary:
The poems in this selection were written and published between 1954 and 1977, except for two poems which have never appeared in book form before. Fred Cogswell writes crystalline poems. A Cogswell poem is the result of concentration;...
- Author:Collette, Jean Yves, Gay, MichelSummary:
Voici réunis Dispositions, La Locomotive et Joker, parus au milieu des années 1980, sous le pseudonyme de Claude Raymond, et depuis longtemps introuvables. S’y ajoute un inédit : Sensations. Si ces textes nous font « constater...
- Author:Graham, Laurie D.Summary:
In the stunning poems of "Settler Education", Graham explores the Plains Cree uprising at Frog Lake -- the death of nine settlers, the hanging of six Cree warriors, the imprisonment of Big Bear, and the opening of the Prairies...
- Author:Turner, JacquelineSummary:
Seven Into Even reworks Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene in counterpoint to the seven deadly sins, and brings these vast references through a mesh of contemporary settings and issues in a series of poetic...
- Author:Hausner, BeatrizSummary:
No other Canadian writer is as thoroughly conversant with the fertile tradition of surrealism as Beatriz Hausner. She bestows the imaginative energy and erotic power behind this abundantly creative way of seeing on every poem in Sew Him...
- Author:Dandurand, Joseph A.Summary:
This powerful collection, all too relevant today, tells a story that needs to be told. The author writes, "This is the truth of what has happened to my people. The Kwantlen people used to number in the thousands but like all river...
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