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    Brossard, Nicole, Majzels, Robert
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    Shortlisted for the 2008 Griffin Poetry Prize. Shortlisted for the 2007 Governor General's Award for Translation. The heat of summer on an earlobe, a parking meter, the shadow of crabs and pigeons under a cherry tree, an olive, a...

  • Author:
    Blais, Mathieu
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    Notre présomption d’innocence raconte en trois temps une histoire vieille comme le monde où les misères et les échardes de la liberté sont préférées au confort gras de la servitude. Écrit à la pointe de la bouteille, dans le fond de la...

  • Author:
    Brandt, Di
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    Nominated for a Griffin Poetry Prize. In Now You Care, her fifth collection of poetry, Di Brandt voices a passionate argument against environmental degradation and a plea for psychic transformation in our violent times. Tuned in to the...

  • Author:
    Humphreys, Helen
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    Alcuin Citation in 1991 for excellence in book design in Canada.

    Nuns Looking Anxious, Listening to Radios is a work in the hazard of retrieval. What sticks in retrospect? Seldom what you would expect, not always the...

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    Chang, Victoria
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    After her mother died, poet Victoria Chang refused to write elegies. Rather, she distilled her grief during a feverish two weeks by writing scores of poetic obituaries for all she lost in the world. InObit, Chang writes of "the way...

  • Author:
    Liem, Tess
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    In Obits. a speaker tries and fails to write obituaries for those whose memorials are missing, those who are represented only as statistics. She considers victims of mass deaths, fictional characters, and her own aunt, asking what does...

  • Author:
    Shapcott, Jo.
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    A Spoken Ink recording of Jo Shapcott reading her prize-winning collection. In 2010, Jo Shapcott published "Of Mutability" with Faber and Faber, her first collection for 12 years. The 47 poems explore the nature of change; in the body,...

  • Author:
    Talvet, Jüri, Hix, H L
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    Of Snow, of Soul offers a substantial selection from each of Talvet’s three most recent poetry books, Kas sul viinamarju ka on? (Do You Also Have Grapes?, 2001), Unest, lumest (Of Dreams, of Snow, 2005) and Silmad peksavad une seinu (...

  • Author:
    Thurston, Nick
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    Of the Subcontract is a collection of poems about computational capitalism, each of which was written by an underpaid worker subcontracted through Amazon.com's Mechanical Turk service. The collection is ordered according to cost-of...

  • Author:
    Price, Steven
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    Winner of the 2013 ReLit award for poetry

    Omens, curses, the reading of entrails: means of grappling
    with what is out of our hands, beyond our ken.

    Steven Price’s second collection is part of a long-lived struggle...

  • Author:
    Surkan, Neil
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    All songs have skin, / all skin has holes. On High, Neil Surkan's debut collection of poetry, searches for spirits in myriad places. Wondering how, why, and when to act with a conscience, speakers try out steep hikes, strong drugs...

  • Author:
    Babstock, Ken
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    The fairground screamed. The mountains and valley were gone. The fire was gone too. The hanging ‘because’ was gone too. The men were away and my heart already dead and the fairground monkey dead in my mouth. A spectre haunts a derelict...

  • Author:
    Bluger, Marianne
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    Marianne Bluger knows what it is to be at sea; oceans of sad and beautiful possibilities wash her poems. And she feels the warmth and fixity of anchorage in home. Tender by nature but tough at need, her language deftly negotiates a...

  • Author:
    Psenak, Stefan, D'Alfonso, Antonio
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    On Order and Things is the story of an impossible love between a man and a woman. Confused characters living in a senseless world where love and creativity are irrelevant. This poetic narrative is for all of us.

  • Author:
    Conley, Tim
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    One False Move is Tim Conley’s debut collection of poetry. As it tightropes along meaning in language, our understandings of, and relationships with, one another, and even our continued survival, it balances elegance with clumsiness,...

  • Author:
    Enns, Karen
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    Sophomore collection of exquisite precision and musicality from a classically trained pianist

    In Ordinary Hours, the follow-up to Karen Enns’ Gerald Lampert Award-nominated first collection, That Other Beauty,...

  • Author:
    Wigmore, Gillian
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    A polyphonic hymn to Northern British Columbia by one of its boldest, most exciting writers.

    Orient is the third collection from one of Western Canada’s most accomplished poets. Composed mainly of three long poems—an...

  • Author:
    Whipple, George
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    Haunting and memorable, the poems in this collection exhibit a sensuous command of language. They are written in the new formalism, a refreshing change from the spate of free verse that has lately dominated the poetry scene. In each...

  • Author:
    Janisse, Melanie
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    Orioles in the Oranges is a collection of poems that tells the story of love and loss as they find common ground in a Metis legend and in modern times. The poems weave the contemporary voice of a young woman who finds herself on Pelee...

  • Author:
    Kane, Donna
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    Orrery is a collection that orbits around the theme of Pioneer 10, an American space probe launched in 1972 to study Jupiter's moons. Having achieved many firsts before reaching Jupiter and a few more after being hurled away from the...

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