Beautiful Children with Pet Foxes, the new collection of poetry from Giller Prize–longlisted writer Jennifer LoveGrove, attempts to make sense of a difficult and unsettling world, where one need not look much further than their own...
Canadian poetry
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Author:LoveGrove, JenniferSummary: - Author:Mosall, NinaSummary:
Bebakhshid revolves around intimate identity intersections of being Iranian, an immigrant, and a woman. Mosall touches everyday banalities as well as challenges, exploring familial relationships, as well as chosen social environments....
- Author:Burgoyne, SarahSummary:
Camus's Meursaultand Thelma and Louisemeet up under the blazing sun.Vexed by the 'unremarkable star' that 'presses' Camus's Meursaultto commit murder, Because the Sunconsiders the blazing sun as a material...
- Author:Israel, IngeSummary:
In this collection of poems, Inge Israel works through Samuel Beckett's letters, his biographies and his actual plays and novels to probe the imagination that created his artistic works. Arguably the pre-eminent avant-garde and most...
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A collection of words and imagery from diverse voices grounded in the land and that explore community in relation to time. Filmmaker/writer, Darlene Naponse, curates a gathering of expression about time that has passed, time that is now...
- Author:Martin, LisaSummary:
Lisa Martin’s new poetry collection seeks the kind of lyric truth that lives in paradox, in the dwelling together of seeming opposites such as life and death, love and loss, faith and doubt, joy and sorrow. Here readers will find a...
- Author:Swan, DaneSummary:
The poems in Bending the Continuum are slave to no genre. Science-fiction, alternative realities, and time are fluid. Form, voice and space in this collection borrow from multiple canons. Dane’s first book is equal parts Can-lit, Harlem...
- Author:Markotić, NicoleSummary:
Bent at the Spine offers a 'pronoun'-ced frolic where the "you" is a disconnected third party - the reader is left in the position of an eavesdropper, or a listener, or a karmasurplus author. Its relentless interrogation resonates at an...
- Author:Stewart, FennSummary:
Much of the language that makes up Better Nature—the first poetry collection by writer and academic Fenn Stewart—is drawn from a diary that Walt Whitman wrote while travelling through Canada at the end of the nineteenth century.But...
- Author:McGiffin, EmilySummary:
Shortlisted for the Raymond Souster Award and the CAA Award for Poetry 2013
Poems with an urgent desire to discover a way to be in right relation
to other creatures and to the earth itself.There are many journeys...
- Author:Rolfe, RobSummary:
Mudtown was a working-class neighbourhood tightly wedged between once busy docks, factories and the escarpment along the east shore of Owen Sound Bay. It was regularly inundated with mud during spring rains. Beyond Mudtown, Rob Rolfe’s...
- Author:di Michele, MarySummary:
A masterwork from one of Canada’s most important poets
Referencing the post-war neorealist film by Vittorio De Sica, Mary di Michele’s Bicycle Thieves commemorates her Italian past and her life in Canada through...
- Author:Michele, Mary Di.Summary:
A masterwork from one of Canada's most important poets Referencing the post-war neorealist film by Vittorio De Sica, Mary di Michele's Bicycle Thieves commemorates her Italian past and her life in Canada through elegy and acts...
- Author:Domanski, DonSummary:
Winner of the J.M. Abraham Poetry Award at the East Coast Literary Awards and
Finalist for the 2013 Governor General’s Award for PoetryFrom a master poet, meditative lines running like veins through the dark grace of...
- Author:Reibetanz, DavidSummary:
The poems in Black Suede Cave meditate on the space inside us, where darkness and imagination animate the unknowable. They illuminate the shadows of memory that slip into our darker corners, reveal by lamplight the nightscape of Toronto...
- Author:Lawrence, KatherineSummary:
In this poetic memoir, Katherine Lawrence rides the electric charge of childhood innocence to its moment of impact with adult manipulation and betrayal. Black Umbrella offers a bold portrait of family breakdown through the lens of a...
- Author:Lundy, RandySummary:
An exquisite series of meditations on memory, evanescence and the land. Randy Lundy draws deeply from his Cree heritage and equally from European and Asian traditions. Readers will be reminded by turns of Simon Ortiz, Per Lagerkvist,...
- Author:Savoie, PaulSummary:
Inspiré de la musique, Bleu Bémol est constitué d’assonances, de rythmes, de phrases musicales, de mouvements libres qui tracent le début et la fin de tout ce qui est essentiel. Paul Savoie y approfondit les différentes dimensions du...
- Author:Pennock, TylerSummary:
Indigenous Poetry; Cree Identity; Métis Identity; Two-Spirit; Colonialism; Sex Work; Relationships; Trauma Remembrance; Memory; Reconciliation; Healing
- Author:Halfe, Louise Bernice (Sky Dancer)Summary:
In Blue Marrow, award-winning poet Louise Bernice Halfe creates an intricate dance of language and voice. A contemporary narrator, a Cree woman, draws into her own story the poignant history of her ancestors and the Europeans they...
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