Two black men: the poet, an elder and veteran of last century's civil rights movement; and a nameless youth, swaggering and beltless, seduced by guns-and-gangs and expensive cars, and perpetually targeted by police. They are brothers by...
Poetry
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Author:Clarke, AustinSummary: - Author:Fiorentino, Jon PaulSummary:
Jon Paul Fiorentino's new collection is a whip-smart poetic investigation of anxiety in all its many manifestations. Anxiety caused by geography, anxieties of influence and looming worries about loss inform the poems as they weave...
- Author:Hartog, DianaSummary:
“… like Emily Dickinson, Hartog melds the ordinary with the visionary….” — Joseph Stroud, author of Below Cold Mountain and Country of Light
Ink Monkey is Diana Hartog’s first book of poetry in more...
- Author:Solway, DavidSummary:
Installations, David Solway’s 14th book of poetry, is haunted with transformation, Few poets possess as commanding a gift for metaphor or can use it to masterfully conjure the ever-changing landscape of the natural world. Like the jerry...
- Author:Pipar, RosetteSummary:
Ma plume s’affole. Elle déverse son flot de mots exprimant un instant fugace qui éveille en moi une aura irrésistible. Vite, je capte l’effluve avant que, dans le vent, il ne s’évapore. Comme une photo saisie à même la source, une...
- Author:Kreslin, Vlado, Charney, UrškaSummary:
Vlado Kreslin will be a revelation to North American readers. His poems seem at one and the same time postmodern and pre-modern. They evoke the lost world of a resilient people in a language that resonates in its plain-spokenness with...
- Author:Seymour, DavidSummary:
Shortlisted for the 2006 Gerald Lampert Award
Inter Alia is the long-awaited first collection by one of Canada’s most talented young poets. His work has been widely published in journals and was selected by Lorna Crozier...
- Author:Bread, Pain NotSummary:
Introduction to the Introduction to the Introduction by André Alexis
For me, reading the Introduction was like being caught in a spring shower while waiting for the 41, and running into a library to get out of the rain...
- Author:Martelly, StéphaneSummary:
Femme de peu de durée, l’auteure s’attache à faire l’inventaire d’un monde qui se dérobe sous ses doigts : objets épars et incomplets, restes d’émotions, bouts de récits entendus ou inventés, bribes de conversations. La poésie de l’...
- Author:Dempster, BarrySummary:
Virtuosic poems tracking two intertwined themes: the breakdown of an obsessive love affair and the vicissitudes of middle age.
Invisible Dogs, Dempster’s fourteenth collection, is a complex but deeply coherent hymn to...
- Author:Shafi, HanaSummary:
It Begins With The Body by Hana Shafi explores the milestones and hurdles of a brown girl coming into her own. Shafi's poems display a raw and frank intimacy and address anxiety, unemployment, heartbreak, relationships, identity,...
- Author:Patriarca, GiannaSummary:
This book is the first part of Patriarca's trilogy on Italian women.
- Author:Gillan, Maria MazziottiSummary:
Written to read like a memoir, this collection of poetry details the life of a family across generations and provides a moving and haunting portrait of the Italian mother who is the center around which this family revolves. But this is...
- Author:Conn, JanSummary:
Jaguar Rain is a rare text: at once a book of stand-alone poems and a work of scholarship, with textual notes and bibliography. Written in the voice of Margaret Mee (naturalist, explorer, and painter of flowers in the Amazon...
- Author:Lefrançois, Alexis, St-Pierre, DenisSummary:
Le « toujours merveilleux poète Alexis Lefrançois », comme le présentait récemment Hugues Corriveau dans Le Devoir, nous lance une invitation avec son recueil : Je vous rejoindrai au teminus vide. Alexis Lefrançois décrit l’éphémère...
- Author:Sol, AdamSummary:
In Jeremiah, Ohio, Adam Sol reinvents the Biblical prophet and doomsayer Jeremiah for the postmodern age, and sends him on a reeling road trip through the strip malls and back roads of the United States with an ordinary, everyman...
- Author:Donne, JohnSummary:
From the timeless pen of the English poet, these monologues are spoken by the lover to his beloved.
- Author:Hutchinson, ChrisSummary:
Jonas in Frames is [choose one]: A) a series of loosely connected narrative fragments written in poetic prose; B) a maze of postcard stories bursting with literary in-jokes; C) a delicate sequence of prose poems interspersed with...
- Author:Holbrook, SusanSummary:
Joyfully melding knowing humour and torqued-up wordplay, Holbrook’s second collection is a comic fusion of the experimental and the experiential, the procedural and the lyric. Punch lines become sucker punches, line breaks slip into...
- Author:Oloruntoba, ToluSummary:
Personal, primordial, and pulsing with syncopated language, Tolu Oloruntoba’s poetic debut, The Junta of Happenstance, is a compendium of dis-ease. This includes disease in the traditional sense, as informed by the poet’s time as a...
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