A brilliant poetic debut about gender-based violence that dismantles received definitions of both gender and violence, Horrible Dance is an accomplished addition to transfeminist thought and theory. By turns darkly comic, emotionally...
Poetry
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Author:Lake, AverySummary: - Author:Young, DeannaSummary:
Finalist for the 2015 Trillium Book Award for Poetry, the Archibald
Lampman Award, City of Ottawa Book Awards and the ReLit AwardA book of dark corners and shifting locations, full of switches that light up
the... - Author:Howe, KenSummary:
Winner of the 2001 Anne Szumigalski Award for Poetry and shortlisted for the 2001 Regina Book Award (Saskatchewan Book Awards). Shortlisted for the 2002 Gerald Lampert Award and longlisted for the 2002 ReLit Awards.
from “Max’s...
- Author:Dameron, DéLana R. A.Summary:
DéLana R. A. Dameron searches for answers to spiritual quandaries in her first collection of poems, How God Ends Us, selected by Elizabeth Alexander as the fourth annual winner of the South Carolina Poetry Book Prize. Dameron's poetry...
- Author:Chabitnoy, AbigailSummary:
In How to Dress a Fish, poet Abigail Chabitnoy, of Germanic and Aleut descent, addresses the lives disrupted by US Indian boarding school policy. She pays particular attention to the life story of her great grandfather, Michael, who was...
- Author:Dickson, RobertSummary:
This bilingual collection of poetry is a selection of award-winning Franco-Ontarian poet Robert Dickson's various collections of poetry, including his Governor-General Award winning Humains paysages en temps de paix relative (Human...
- Author:Zolf, RachelSummary:
Winner of the 2008 Trillium Book Award for Poetry Write for buyers. Write for bosses. Think hyper. Think branding. Tell your visitor where to go. Poetry and ‘plain language’ collide in the writing machine that is Human Resources. Here...
- Author:Kotsilidis, LeighSummary:
For a long time, people have looked to science as a way to understand their own lives. But while science has proven itself a useful metaphor, it has just as often been exposed as being as fallible as the flawed humans who lean on it....
- Author:Pierson, Ruth RoseSummary:
Although poetry is one of the oldest art forms and cinema one of the youngest, a symbiosis exists between the two -- an interchange of metaphor, rhythm, point-of-view. No surprise, then, that so many contemporary poets write about film...
- Author:Gills, DedanSummary:
Belvie and Dedan's journey took them to Accra, Ghana, where they were married; across the United States and Canada--including the Underground Railroad and Civil Rights Trail--planting trees and building community in cities like Toronto...
- Author:Thom, Kai ChengSummary:
What can we hope for at the end of the world? What can we trust in when community has broken our hearts? What would it mean to pursue justice without violence? How can we love in the absence of faith? In a heartbreaking yet hopeful...
- Author:Gould, NoraSummary:
Winner of the 2013 Robert Kroetsch Edmonton Book Prize
and the Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry (Writers Guild of Alberta)Shortlisted for Gerald Lampert Memorial Award
and a finalist for the High Plains Book... - Author:Elmslie, SusanSummary:
Winner of the 2006 A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry and shortlisted for the McAuslan First Book Prize (Quebec Writers’ Federation).
Shortlisted for the 2007 Pat Lowther Award and the 2007 ReLit Awards.Poems that reach towards...
- Author:Mali, TaylorSummary:
Taylor's first live spoken-word program since 2003, Icarus Airlines, contains 34 poems, including "The Miracle Workers", "Holding Your Position", "The Mascot of Monterrey", "Best Conversation on Race", "The Apologia of Hephaestus", "...
- Author:Lefrançois, Alexis, Jean, MarcelSummary:
Alexis Lefrançois ne se rattache à aucune chapelle littéraire. Sa poésie nous entraîne aux portes de l’indicible, de ce qui pourrait être l’éblouissement du silence, quand tout a été dit. Au-delà de nos vaines certitudes, dans le...
- Author:Toner, PatrickSummary:
At his death in 1985, Alden Nowlan stood in the first rank of Canadian writers. Today, his poetry is beloved by Maritimers and popular across Canada and in the US as well. If I Could Turn and Meet Myself tells his life story, from his...
- Author:Shaffran, RonSummary:
Speaking a language we understand, Rona Shaffran's poems tell the story of remarkable things that can happen in a broken relationship. These poems inhabit the sharp edges and rich depths of a union too long untended. Ignite begins...
- Author:D'Agostino, SaroSummary:
Immigrant Songs is a posthumous collection of the works of Saro (Rosario) D’Agostino. It includes poems, fiction works that may be chapters of an unfinished novel, and letters. These fragments from a seminal Italo-Canadian writer whose...
- Author:Wolff, ElanaSummary:
The thirty-three authors whose poems appear in this collection are: Jonathan Bennett, Rosemary Blake, Allan Briesmaster, Robin Blackburn, Clara Blackwood, James Clarke, Ron Charach, Margaret Christakos, Antonio D'Alfonso, Christopher...
- Author:McCrae, John, Macphail, Sir Andrew, Gnarowski, MichaelSummary:
“In Flanders Fields,” the iconic poem which gives its title to this collection of poems and selected prose, is one of Canada’s — and the world’s — best known poems of the Great War. It was written in 1915 by Canadian John McCrae, an...
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