An elegiac and incisive debut that blends poems of social justice
with poems of ordinary life
In her first collection, Thin Air of the Knowable, the physical landscapes of Wendy Donawa’s life—West Coast, Caribbean...
Canadian poetry
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Author:Donawa, WendySummary: - Author:Benning, SheriSummary:
Winner of the 2007 Anne Szumigalski Award for Poetry and the 2007 City of Saskatoon Prize and nominated for Book of the Year (Saskatchewan Book Awards) and longlisted for the 2008 ReLit Awards
Fierce and delicate poems from a...
- Author:Connelly, KarenSummary:
In her first book of poetry since The Small Words in My Body, which won the Pat Lowther Prize for 1990, Karen Connelly writes, in the tradition of the writer-adventurer, of vivid encounters and reflections abroad and at home,...
- Author:Christy, JimSummary:
COCKEYED: askew, crooked, intoxicated, absurd; marked by bends or angles; incongruous, not straight. In other words, Jim Christy, Canada's most iconoclastic and irreverent poet, views this cockeyed world the way it is; not only with 20/...
- Author:KlipschutzSummary:
This Drawn & Quartered Moon makes pre-millennial San Francisco its epicenter, and from there ranges out in time and space. Characters abound. The reader will meet a plagiarist, a Vietnam vet named Othello, a Mafia don, a drug mule...
- Author:Deerchild, RosannaSummary:
These are poems about what it means to be from the north ; a town divided along colour lines ; and a family dealing with its history of secrets. At it's core, this collection is about the life of a Cree girl and the places she...
- Author:King-Campbell, SharonSummary:
Illuminating, poised, and wholly original, the poems of Sharon King-Campbell's This Is How It Isrange across the planet from New Zealand to Thailand to Newfoundland, gathering along the way voices both historical and mythological in a...
- Author:Neveu, ChantalSummary:
In this stunning long poem, Chantal Neveu draws from the lexicons of science, art, revolution and corporeal movement to forge intense and extended rhythms that invoke the elements and spaces making up our world. This is poetry capable...
- Author:Tater, MallorySummary:
Mallory Tater's This Will Be Good tells the story of a young woman’s burgeoning femininity as it brushes up against an emerging eating disorder. As the difficulties of her disease reveal themselves, they ultimately disrupt family...
- Author:Souaid, Carolyn MarieSummary:
Shortlisted for the 2016 ReLit Award
A razor-sharp eye for detail roams and redeems imperfections
both personal and collective.The world in Carolyn Marie Souaid’s latest collection is both an act of the imagination...
- Author:Belcourt, Billy-RaySummary:
Part manifesto, part memoir, This Wound is a World is an invitation to 'cut a hole in the sky to world inside.' Billy-Ray Belcourt issues a call to turn to love and sex to understand how Indigenous peoples shoulder sadness and pain like...
- Author:John, Aisha SashaSummary:
In THOU, Aisha Sasha John knows the day – biblically. What if time itself was an object of desire? And the book was a theatre for that? Aisha Sasha John has a crush on time. Which is why she discipled in it. For three years. Also for...
- Author:Holbrook, Susan L.Summary:
In 1934, Gertrude Stein asked 'What is poetry and if you know what poetry is what is prose.' Throaty Wipes answers this question and many more! How does broadband work? Does 'chuffed' mean pleased or displeased? What if the generations...
- Author:Shannacappo, NealSummary:
Debut poetry collection by Nakawe writer, illustrator and graphic artist NShannacappo, the poetry best encapsulates the idea of someone who is Asunder. Being broken, but not staying broken and perhaps not being quite whole in the end...
- Author:Ursuliak, EmilySummary:
In 1951 two intrepid women, Phyllis and her best friend, Anne, set off on a journey from Victoria, British Columbia, to Red Deer, Alberta, and back again. Travelling first by 1927 MG Roadster to Alberta, and then on horseback on the way...
- Author:Bouvet, RachelSummary:
Résumé Une femme perd sa voix. Elle écrit pour reprendre possession de son corps abîmé. Elle chemine ainsi, s'ancre par l'écriture dans sa voix intime, qui résonne avec d'autres silences et paysages de terre, d...
- Author:Pierce, E. AlexSummary:
The poems in E. Alex Pierce's new collection invite readers to meditate upon language embedded in landscape, and trace the formation of a young artist who begins in music, arrives at theatre, and ends in poetry. From striking...
- Author:Lee, John B.Summary:
A long poem dramatizing the clash in visions of the land which occurs when a white settler builds on a sacred Iroquois site.
- Author:Chiasson, Herménégilde, Elder, Jo-Anne, Chiasson, HerménégildeSummary:
First published in 1974, Mourir à Scoudouc emerged out of a period of cultural awakening. Chiasson's poems denounced the narrow limitations of the past and traced the lines of a fresh collective vision. The poems were lyrical,...
- Author:Dunic, LeanneSummary:
In To Love the Coming End, a disillusioned author obsessed with natural disasters and 'the curse of 11' reflects on their own personal earthquake: the loss of a loved one. A lyric travelogue that moves between Singapore, Canada, and...
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