If you tore off the tops of canola --yellow canola flowers -- would you jump in a tub of canola margarinejust to make the best of despair? Implored by concerned readers to be 'classy' and 'real' for once, David McGimpsey has composed a...
Poetry
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Author:McGimpsey, DavidSummary: - Author:Roberson, EdSummary:
Award-winning poet Ed Roberson confronts the realities of an era in which the fate of humanity and the very survival of our planet are uncertain. Departing from the traditional nature poem, Roberson's work reclaims a much older...
- Author:Kenyon, MichaelSummary:
An award-winning writer conjures the Muse and the “noble gases” in this elemental and incandescent new collection.
Astatine is an Italian girl, who like Dante’s Beatrice, haunts the narrator of Michael Kenyon’s incandescent...
- Author:Roberts, CleaSummary:
Poems like single larches, each in an immense white plain—spare
and clean, their exactness startling and arrestingWhether speaking of erotic love, domestic life, spiritual wilderness, or family entanglements, the poems of...
- Author:Kerr, DonSummary:
Shortlisted for the 1998 Saskatchewan Book Award for Poetry
Don Kerr's fifth poetry collection is a verbal joyride, an exuberant celebration of a book: a celebration of mountains and plains, of growing up and of being young, of...
- Author:Day, BrianSummary:
This new take on Hindu mythology includes poems inspired by South Asian stories and covers the dealings of Vishnu, human avatars Rama and Krishna, and the relationship between Rama and his wife Sita.
- Author:Nayet, BertrandSummary:
" Les carnets de mythologies appliquées " sont trois recueils de poésie écrits et illustrés par Bertrand Nayet qui présentent une grande richesse de tons, de thèmes et de références. Ce sont des mythologies historiques...
- Author:Bonetto, EstelleSummary:
À fleur d'âge est une fresque fluide et fragmentée façonnée au gré des vécus, des voyages et des visages. On entre dans l'univers tiraillé des marchés et des boulangeries, on se promène sur la Croisette champêtre...
- Author:Olds, SharonSummary:
A new poetry collection from Pulitzer and T. S. Eliot Prize winner Sharon Olds. "At the time of have-not, I look at myself in this mirror," writes Olds in this self-scouring, exhilarating volume, which opens with a section of quarantine...
- Author:Moore, RobertSummary:
Taking its inspiration from the Melville’s famous line “If man will strike, strike through the mask!”, Based on Actual Events punches through the surface of visible things, grabbing wild at the drifting actual. Calling himself a “a...
- Author:Batchelor, RhondaSummary:
The poems in Bearings are arranged in the stressful rhythm of alternation between the intense states of being in love and/or with someone or being alone. Loss refines the vision. For Rhonda Batchelor's poetry that means a gain...
- Author:Lynes, JeanetteSummary:
In this new collection, Jeanette Lynes turns her attention to the life and work of John Clare (1793-1864), the renowned poet of the countryside and one of England's greatest working-class bards. In these poems, the Romantic world of...
- Author:Swan, DaneSummary:
The poems in Bending the Continuum are slave to no genre. Science-fiction, alternative realities, and time are fluid. Form, voice and space in this collection borrow from multiple canons. Dane’s first book is equal parts Can-lit, Harlem...
- Author:AnonymousSummary:
King Hrothgar of Denmark has a problem: though his land prospers, his great mead-hall is plagued nightly by a horrible beast, Grendel, that pillages and kills his men. Leaving his home in Sweden, the warrior Beowulf sails to the king's...
- Author:Reeves, RogerSummary:
An incandescent collection that interrogates the personal and political nature of desire, freedom, and disaster. In his brilliant, expansive second volume, Whiting Award-winning poet Roger Reeves probes the apocalypses and raptures of...
- Author:McGiffin, EmilySummary:
Shortlisted for the Raymond Souster Award and the CAA Award for Poetry 2013
Poems with an urgent desire to discover a way to be in right relation
to other creatures and to the earth itself.There are many journeys...
- Author:Grimes, NikkiSummary:
This thought-provoking companion to Nikki Grimes' Coretta Scott King Award-winning Bronx Masquerade shows the capacity poetry has to express ideas and feelings, and connect us with ourselves and others. Darrian dreams of writing for the...
- Author:Rolfe, RobSummary:
Mudtown was a working-class neighbourhood tightly wedged between once busy docks, factories and the escarpment along the east shore of Owen Sound Bay. It was regularly inundated with mud during spring rains. Beyond Mudtown, Rob Rolfe’s...
- Author:Flynn, Thomas F.Summary:
"On September 11, 2001, journalist Tom Flynn set off on his bike toward the World Trade Towers not knowing what he was riding into. Bikeman is one man's journey back to the horrors of that day and to the humanity that somehow emerged...
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The best field recordings of songs and calls of fifty birds of England and North America are here paired with such classic poems as "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe as well as poems by Dickinson, Shelley, Longfellow, Tennyson, and more....
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