Le travail de Dionne Brand a toujours été « un creuset de lyrisme incantatoire et de cinglante critique sociale » (Barbara Carey). En effet, couvrant à la fois l’intime et le collectif, Ossuaires opère un désancrage des mots : délestés...
Poetry
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Author:Brand, DionneSummary: - Author:Cayley, KateSummary:
From acclaimed fiction writer and playwright Kate Cayley—
poems that illuminate the deep strangeness of the familiarIn Other Houses, Kate Cayley’s second collection of poetry, objects are alive with the presence...
- Author:Hutchinson, ChrisSummary:
Longlisted for the 2010 ReLit Award
Exciting music, delicious ironies, radiant self-awareness.
With imagination, wit and scrupulous candour, Chris Hutchinson’s poems negotiate and renegotiate the shifting no-man’s-land...
- Author:Nilsen, EmilySummary:
Otolith — the ear stone — is a series of bones that help us to orient ourselves in space. In Otolith, Emily Nilsen attempts a similar feat in poetry: to turn the reader's attention to their relationship to the world, revealing an...
- Author:Ladouceur, BenSummary:
His body, like yours, would lie mute as a plumuntil a vigilant limb came to a decision. As you might have guessed I've come to one myself. Moving from the absurdity of the First World War to the chaos of today’s cities, where men share...
- Author:Lahey, AnitaSummary:
Like the laundry that greets readers at the start of Anita Laheys astonishing debuthanging on clothelines and bodied out in breezesthe poems in Out to Dry in Cape Breton exist in a state of thrumming levitation. Laheys scampish play...
- Author:Dugan, MichaelSummary:
A selection of poetry chosen from the best works of Michael Dugan and Doug Macleod with jokes and fun, hilarious domestic life and strange forms of domestic nonsense.
- Author:Crate, JoanSummary:
In powerful language that reflects the conflicts between the primitive and the sophisticated, Joan Crate redreams the passions which animated and tormented her famous predecessor. Part white, part Mohawk princess, Pauline Johnson /...
- Author:MILTON, JohnSummary:
Paradise Regained is a poem by the 17th century English poet John Milton, published in 1671. It is connected by name to his earlier and more famous epic poem Paradise Lost, with which it shares similar theological themes. Based on the...
- Author:Ashbery, JohnSummary:
This collection gathers unpublished, book-length projects and long poems written between 1993-2007, along with one (as yet) undated work, to showcase John Ashbery's diverse artistry.
- Author:Robertson, SuzanneSummary:
In her first collection of poems, Suzanne Robertson meditates on the nature of intimacy; the connective tissue that binds stranger to stranger, human to animal, soul to landscape, heart to mind. Inspired by the Buddhist paramitas–...
- Author:Carlo, ElíasSummary:
Much as one would define a garden, designed according to patterns of flowers, colors and other sensory effects, the formalist quality of parterre becomes the garden itself. Conceived as a “curated” experience, elías carlo’s Parterre is...
- Author:Joseph, FrederickSummary:
In this thought-provoking collection of essays, poems, and short reflections, Frederick Joseph explores issues of masculinity and patriarchy from both a personal and cultural standpoint. From fatherhood, and "manning up" to...
- Author:Johnson, Pauline, Gnarowski, MichaelSummary:
Half-Mohawk, half-English author Pauline Johnson astounded Canada with her unique poetry, prose, and presentations. Pauline Johnson was an unusual and unique presence on the literary scene during the late 19th and early 20th centuries....
- Author:Stewart, ShannonSummary:
Penny Dreadfuls were popular, cheaply produced 19th century magazines filled with brutal and sensationalist tales. In her uncompromising second collection of poetry, Vancouver poet Shannon Stewart revisits their grisly spirit through a...
- Author:Clarke, AlisonSummary:
These poems reach through time to tell the remarkable story of Phillis Wheatley, the first African-American woman to publish a book of poetry, and who did so while she was enslaved. Phillis Wheatley was the first African American to...
- Author:Geoffrion, DanièleSummary:
Les pensées de ce recueil nous réservent de découvrir une recherche personnelle, lucide et sans compromission. L’auteur nous invite à partager sa réflexion sur le sens de la vie et la complexité des rapports humains, à explorer l’espace...
- Author:Arima, PhlipSummary:
Pin Pricks is a collection of deceptively simple poems and aphorisms, each of which expresses an understanding of what it means to be human in this high-tech, global age. The poems leap from urban first world concerns to third world...
- Author:Dyck, E. F.Summary:
Ed Dyck finds that you cannot say "piss" on the radio in Saskatoon. There wasn't very much radio promotion of his book. That's a shame. Everybody should know about the cat Jack and the world Dyck compacts around him in 15 "sonnets."
- Author:Cadeau, CharmaineSummary:
Disintegration, gaps in the historical record, and unaccounted-for absences hold these magically makeshift lyric poems together.
Provisional, roaming, obsessed with remnants and deferrals, the poems in Charmaine Cadeau’s second...
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