“As accomplished as Jonathan Bennett is at using language, he’s never fussy or precious about it. With his exacting, contemporary voice, part colourful reporter, part reluctant witness, his lines gain their effect by serving experience...
Canadian poetry
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Author:Bennett, JonathanSummary: - Author:Bryden, Diana FitzgeraldSummary:
The early car’s mine.
I leave before the day
puts hardware on;
ride east all the way.I leave before the day
abandons slow calm.
Ride east all the way,
and now a stormabandons...
- Author:Wynand, DerkSummary:
These flies on a white table burst
into shafts of light and touch down
again, sun-stricken,
the oil of their bodies breaking
light into all its parts.Not yet song, their buzzing proves
less... - Author:Haché, LucySummary:
In this brave first book, Lucy Haché transports the reader with intimate revelations on self-awareness and identity by exploring both her personal and ancestral relationship to the sea, forest and sky. Through skilled restraint and...
- Author:Patel, NishaSummary:
Coconut is an exploration of my place in the universe as told through stories of the author's experiences of racism, sexuality, empowerment, grief, and love. It tells girls like her that their origins live within themselves, and that...
- Author:Nowlan, Alden, Bartlett, BrianSummary:
Alden Nowlan (1933-1983) once wrote of a desire to leave behind "one poem, one story / that will tell what it was like / to be alive." In an abundance of memorable poems, he fulfilled this desire with candour and subtlety, emotion, and...
- Author:Narwani, UlrikeSummary:
The poems in Collecting Silence arc through youth, love and loss, to maturation, aging, peace. Wide travels throughout Asia, Europe and North America bring Narwani face to face with the oppressions of poverty, caste and religion, as...
- Author:St-Onge, RochSummary:
Collection du caillou vert et bleu, c'est l'écriture d'une vie bien remplie, soit plus de 40 ans avec des joies de tous les instants, de grandes peines, une femme extraordinaire, Jacqueline, qui est ma complice et mon...
- Author:Glenn, Lorri NeilsenSummary:
Longlisted for the 2008 ReLit Awards
Humane ethnographer, passionate memoirist, lyricist of the acute moment, Lorri Neilsen Glenn explores memory as legacy.
Lorri Neilsen Glenn’s poems welcome the reader into a place where...
- Author:Leggo, CarlSummary:
Come-By-Chance is a collection of poems, often narrative, sometimes lyrical, always ruminative, about home, family, and place, about leaving and retu ing, about growing up and growing old, about leaving Newfoundland to live in British...
- Author:Still, JenniferSummary:
It was a long silence that brought me to the erasure poem. Not mine, but my brother's, during his many months in a coma. I came across a notebook of his—a pocketsized, handwritten field guide of prairie grasses. I read it for...
- Author:Zacharin, LauraSummary:
In Common Brown House Moths, poems step back from the hurry, blur and ordinariness to take a closer look at the the hazards of daily life. From her work as a doctor and everyday family life, first time author, Laura Zacharin considers...
- Author:Avison, MargaretSummary:
Winner of the 2003 Griffin Poetry Prize and of the 2003 CAA Jack Chalmers Poetry Award and Globe 100 book for 2003
“…Margaret Avison is a national treasure. For many decades she has forged a way to write, against the grain, some...
- Author:McNair, ChristineSummary:
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2013 OTTAWA BOOK AWARDSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2013 ARCHIBALD LAMPMAN AWARDSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2013 RELIT AWARD Conflict interweaves ghosts, bad communication, the uncanny and the archival, to create a collection of poems...
- Author:Germaine, MarySummary:
In her debut collection, Congratulations, Rhododendrons, award-winning poet Mary Germaine offers love poems to an insistently unlovely world.Through poems that speak to plastic bags and drones as much as they admire roses and the moon,...
- Author:Hall, PhilSummary:
I am sitting outside at dawn on Otty Lake, where I live, in the woods. The light is coming over the trees, and each morning the poem is written as if right while it is being read.A rough immediacy. Gap & Hum. Caesura. Syllables as...
- Author:Cooper, AfuaSummary:
Copper Woman and Other Poems is a collection of poems that announces a humanistic vision, dealing with such themes as rebirth (physical and symbolic), mythology, memory, bondage, blood, family, identities in flux, migration, politics...
- Author:Thérien, Michel A.Summary:
« Célébrant les noces du corps dans une union extrême qui le projette au-delà du souffle même, Corps sauvage nous dit que le poème est rythme et pollen. […] Souvent saisissante, la voix du poète rend de façon remarquable l’insaisissable...
- Author:Boughn, MichaelSummary:
Butt out, Dante. Move over, Milton. Piss off, Pound. Outta the way, Olson. Here comes Cosmographia – a post-Lucretian faux micro-epic, the latest ground breaking incursion into the ever popular spectacle of the Epic Poem. Tracking the...
- Author:Cadsby, HeatherSummary:
Poems about the unexpected and often wry coincidences language lends to life.
In Could be, each poem is a moment of engaged and isolated attention, prodding language, relationships, the mundane aspects of daily life,...
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