The only authorized audio companion to the widely respected Norton Anthology of Poetry, Third Edition, this audio collection includes the greatest poems of the English language, ranging from the writings of Shakespeare, Milton, Blake,...
Poetry
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Author:Summary: - Author:Friesen, PatrickSummary:
Shortlisted for the 1997 Governor General’s Award for Poetry
Set firmly at the end of the millennium, A Broken Bowl takes on the burden of history, with its heaped atrocities, its unimaginable sufferings. This long poem...
- Author:Scharpf, Oliver, Sonzogni, MarcoSummary:
Scharpf's poems can be defined as expanded haiku. In spite of their brevity, however, they are suited to record physical and emotional journeys. Scharpf's verse has a distinctive colloquial diction: a sort of noisy stream of...
- Author:Foreman, GabeSummary:
People who rely on stereotypes are often vilified. But really, is there a better way to classify people? There are some taxonimical difficulties, though. Exactly how many types of people are there? What behaviours are characteristic of...
- Author:Abdurraqib, HanifSummary:
In his much-anticipated follow-up to The Crown Ain't Worth Much, poet, essayist, biographer, and music critic Hanif Abdurraqib has written a book of poems about how one rebuilds oneself after a heartbreak, the kind that renders...
- Author:Polson, ThorSummary:
Franz Kafka's writings are characterized by an extreme sensitivity manifested in absurdity, alienation, and gallows humor. These two particular collections of short pieces, A Country Doctor (1919) and A Hunger Artist (1924), newly...
- Author:Miller, RoySummary:
A Life With You details the small moments of life as lived with a partner. Running out of gas, going for a walk around the neighborhood or water fights in the kitchen, the little things are the glue that keep us together over the years...
- Author:STEVENS, RonSummary:
Poems, both light and serious, on current concerns and all with Australian themes. Many of these poems, read by the author, are prize winners, poetic tales of the City and the Bush and the individual.
- Author:Viscusi, RobertSummary:
In these poems, objects are occasions in outline. Dogs, cats, pianos, cappuccino, hair dye, snowshoes, parsley, and black raspberries do not simply lie there. They act upon one another and upon us. They demonstrate the laws of time. One...
- Author:Bolster, StephanieSummary:
Shortlisted for the 2012 Pat Lowther Memorial Award
An ambivalent zoo-tour, an open-eyed meander through a landscape of made and contained things.
A Page from The Wonders of Life on Earth is a book with a...
- Author:Flanagan, RobertSummary:
Existentialist in approach, this collection of tightly woven, abstract poems explores ageing and what it means to not be young anymore.
- Author:Harris, MaureenSummary:
Maureen Harris’s first volume of poetry evokes “a possible landscape,” where the stories that subtly shape us blend with the moments that we are. Here is an Eden where Eve longs for the serpent’s “green quiver,” his “sibilant caress,”...
- Author:O'Meara, DavidSummary:
Like the rhapsodists, the storytellers of ancient Greece, A Pretty Sight shapes voices of the past and present into a stitched song lifted and sounded toward the next century. Haunted by 'time's frame / that dark shape near the edge of...
- Author:Zemokhol, PaulSummary:
An archaeologist of the human heart, Paul Zemokhol uncovers the memories of his Egyptian ancestors and their lost world by the Nile, and he starkly juxtaposes them with his own plain experiences of Canadian urban life in Toronto and...
- Author:García Lorca, FedericoSummary:
Any time one can present new, previously unpublished poetry by Federico Garcia Lorca, one of the great masters of twentieth century poetry, it's a literary event. And that is just what A Season in Granada is -- something truly special...
- Author:Itani, FrancesSummary:
Frances Itani’s third book of poetry consists of two deeply moving elegiac sequences commemorating the deaths of a sister and friend. In chaste and determinedly unsentimental language, Itani takes us through the crises all must face,...
- Author:Søndergaard, Morten, Haveland, Barbara J.Summary:
In A Step in the Right Direction, Søndergaard continues a line of thought he first developed in Bees Die Sleeping and continued in Vinci, Later (which was published in English in 2005). This new collection is "about" walking. It...
- Author:Gernes, Ulrikka S., Friesen, PatrickSummary:
A Sudden Sky is a book of northern poems with crystalline images and lines, fragile graceful poems that speak of fragments, of the moment between open and closed eyes, of the human need for embrace. These poems note the spaces...
- Author:Sloate, DanielSummary:
The poetic vision of "A Taste of Earth, A Taste of Flame" is timeless. It is also a work rooted in the thought of our own era. Though man does not escape his predicament, our own era has perhaps made him more aware than ever before of...
- Author:Nguyen, HoaSummary:
A new collection of poetry by Hoa Nguyen.
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