Shortlisted for the 2012 Aqua Lansdowne Prize for Poetry
A fascinating, ambling, loitering mystery story in verse, a whoizzit rather than a whodunit.
In this innovative and arresting narrative poem, Méira Cook’s walker, a...
Poetry
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Author:Cook, MéiraSummary: - Author:Hare, CarlSummary:
Here green-leafed memories invade the mind; Here our young profuse acts luxuriate; And then leaf-fallen times can be defined; And then the old, snow-fallen thoughts await. These poems explore our ages by the season: Child's adventure in...
- Author:Smith, ClintSummary:
A remarkable poetry collection from Clint Smith, the #1 New York Times bestselling and National Book Critics Circle award-winning author of How the Word Is Passed. Clint Smith's vibrant and compelling new collection traverses the...
- Author:Browne, ColinSummary:
In these passionate poems, this long poem, there is a story (there are stories) which a reader mines out of a landscape of language moulded under great pressure and eloquent of the stresses that formed it. This is non-representational...
- Author:Nichol, bpSummary:
‘All of Nichol’s work is stamped by his desire to create texts that are engaging in themselves as well as in context, and to use indirect structural and textual devices to carry meaning. In The Martyrology different ways of speaking...
- Author:Robertson, WilliamSummary:
At the time of writing this book, William Robertson was a homemaker. His poems bring a new passion to the ancient domestic scene, and to everything else he looks at out of that often-turbulent centre. He ventures with care "into a...
- Author:Hanna, GabbieSummary:
Comedian Gabbie Hanna brings levity to the twists and turns of modern adulthood in this exhilarating debut collection of illustrated poetry. In poems ranging from the singsong rhythms of children's verses to a sophisticated confessional...
- Author:Reibetanz, JohnSummary:
A masterful poet extends his range, bringing both his agile intelligence and musical acuity into play.
Afloat, John Reibetanz’s eighth collection of poetry, focuses on water in many manifestations. The centerpiece, a...
- Author:Rogal, StanSummary:
The idea for this collection was to offer a tip of the hat to people whose lives and/or works have influenced the author. Each piece is forwarded by a short background story as well as an epigram which provides some descriptive entry...
- Author:Briesmaster, AllanSummary:
Through a dazzling variety of poetic forms and styles, this book restlessly explores such themes as identity, personal growth, love and friendship, Canadian landscape, climate change, visual art, and the roots of poetry itself, in moods...
- Author:Broggiato, TizianoSummary:
This collection presents a bilingual Italian-English selection of the poetry of Tiziano Broggiato, winner of the prestigious Premio Montale. The translations, by Canadians Patricia Hanley and Maria Laura Mosco, bring to North American...
- Author:Zultanski, StevenSummary:
Agony is the first in a trilogy of long confessional poems. It uses semi-rigorous mathematical and logical constraints to view the author's life and body, telescopically, as little bits of time and space. Everything written here is as...
- Author:Collins, BillySummary:
Presents a volume of more than fifty new poems accompanied by a generous gathering from the author's collections of the past decade, lending insight into his overall poetic achievements and his use of playful, ironic, and melodic...
- Author:Babstock, KenSummary:
From the author of the award-winning The Sisters Brothers comes a dark, boozy, and hilarious tale from the LA underworld. A nameless barman tends a decaying bar in Hollywood and takes notes for a book about his clientele. Initially, he...
- Author:Gagné, DominicSummary:
Simplement se souvenir de l’existence des rivières, des montagnes, de son nom et de son corps qui s’absentent un peu plus chaque jour ; malgré la pluie, elle avance direction Mémoire, franchit la distance qui la sépare des mots abandon...
- Author:Dawson, Greg, Hood, SusanSummary:
When the Germans invade Ukraine, Zhanna, a young Jewish girl, must leave behind her friends, her freedom, and her promising musical future at the world's top conservatory. With no time to say goodbye, Zhanna, her sister Frina, and...
- Author:Di Nardo, AntonySummary:
These astute, generous poems give us contemporary Beirut in all its ravaged and incongruent beauty.
This arresting first collection is, in part, a delicately balanced look at Beirut from the perspective of a Westerner who lives...
- Author:Martinello, DomenicaSummary:
"From Homer to Starbucks, a look at sirens and mermaids and feminism and consumerism. What started as a small sequence of poems about the Starbucks logo grew to monstrous proportions after the poet fell under a siren spell herself. All...
- Author:Gillan, Maria MazziottiSummary:
Constructed in the form of a memoir, these poems take on an emotional tone as the author details the story of her life. The collection is populated by her memories of childhood, courtships and marriage, family illness, children, and...
- Author:Tran, PaulSummary:
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Pick Named a Best Book of 2022 by The New Yorker “Paul Tran’s debut collection of poems is indelible, this remarkable voice transforming itself as you read, eventually transforming...
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