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  • The Last to Leave
    Author:
    Clough, Margaret
    Summary:

    The Last to Leave is Margaret Clough's second collection of poetry. These poems follow on from her first extremely popular collection, At Least the Duck Survived (2011) in that the light, warm-hearted tone continues as does Clough...
  • The lease
    Author:
    Henderson, Mathew
    Summary:

    The lease is meaningless: a square paced first by seismic workers, and then your father, and then by every other man you know. Distilled from his time in the Saskatchewan and Albertan oilfields, Mathew Henderson’s The Lease plumbs the...
  • The lights : poems
    Author:
    Lerner, Ben.
    Summary:

    Longlisted for the Griffin Poetry Prize. A New Yorker Essential Read. Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, Vulture, NPR, Financial Times, The Telegraph, and Electric Literature. A formally ambitious and intensely felt...
  • The lost cosmonauts
    Author:
    Hunt, Ken
    Summary:

    Fraught with fatal mishaps and disastrous near misses, the missions of the space race between the Soviet Union and the United States defined an era and exemplified the global socio-political conflict of the Cold War. The Lost Cosmonauts...
  • The Lost Letters
    Author:
    Greenwood, Catherine
    Summary:

    Nominated for the 2014 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize (BC Book Prizes); finalist for the 2014 City of Victoria Butler Book Prize

    Atmospherically light and stylistically expansive – poems that regard our givens as a gift.

    Don...
  • The lost spells
    Author:
    Macfarlane, Robert
    Summary:

    Since its publication in 2017, The Lost Words has enchanted listeners with its poetry. Now, The Lost Spells, a book kindred in spirit and tone, continues to re-wild the lives of children and adults. The Lost Spells evokes the wonder of...
  • The Love Poems of Rumi
    Author:
    Summary:

    The Love Poems of Rumi, as translated by Philip Dunn in this gorgeous little book, maintain the same emotional significance with readers today as they did seven centuries ago when originally composed by the Persian poet.

    Samples...
  • The Luskville Reductions
    Author:
    Reid, Monty
    Summary:

    Shortlisted for the 2009 Lampman-Scott Award (for the best book of poetry in the National Capital Region)

    A book of lyrics, fragmented, extended, and recovered, which read as a single long poem.

    The Luskville...
  • The major works
    Author:
    Wilde, Oscar
    Summary:

    This authoritative edition was formerly published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a unique combination of Wilde's poetry and prose short stories, plays, critical...
  • The man who delivers clouds
    Author:
    Acquelin, José, D'Alfonso, Antonio
    Summary:

    This selection of poems offers the reader a good introduction to a poet of oxymorons, the poet who brings light out of the darkness. Born and living in Montreal, José Acquelin is known to be a poet open wide to the world. He is the...
  • The Martha Landscapes
    Author:
    Thibaudeau, Colleen
    Summary:

    Readers of Colleen Thibaudeau's selected poems, My Granddaughters Are Combing Out Their Long Hair, will feel at home in The Martha Landscapes, where domestic dearness and the exotic, like strangers, "make their first...
  • The mechanical bird
    Author:
    Boxer, Asa
    Summary:

    An old idea of reality animates the poems in The Mechanical Bird: things are never what they seem. Opening with a quick-talking disquisition on lying (Keep it simple, tidy, / take a noncommittal stance) and ending with masterly...
  • The moon knows no boundary
    Author:
    Tilberg, Mary
    Summary:

    The poems in this collection describe the survival of love and family during times of war. Spanning early-20th-century Russia to the present day, each war and upheaval is described as both a failure of peace and another step backward....
  • The new one : painfully true stories from a reluctant dad
    Author:
    Birbiglia, Mike
    Summary:

    With laugh-out-loud observations on the rollercoaster ride that is being a new parent, New York Times bestselling author and award-winning comedian Mike Birbiglia delivers a book that is perfect for anyone who has ever raised a child,...
  • The night chorus
    Author:
    Hoefle, Harold
    Summary:

    A whistling through teeth. / He shuts his eyes but still sees / the red glow of exit signs. Harold Hoefle's The Night Chorus rises out of forests and country roads, bars and buses, cities and small towns. These locales are the...
  • The nonnets
    Author:
    Giovannone, Aaron
    Summary:

    Compulsively confessional and cracking-wise, The Nonnets is an utterly unique alchemy of poetry and comedy. Aaron Giovanonne's latest collection is a book-length sequence of 'nonnets'-nine-line poems that Giovannone...
  • The Office Tower Tales
    Author:
    Major, Alice
    Summary:

    In this ambitious long poem, Alice Major exemplifies the redemptive force of story. Through the light-hearted interplay of such literary touchstones as Chaucer, The Thousand and One Nights, and Greek myth, readers meet receptionist...
  • The patience stone sang-e saboor
    Author:
    Rahimi, Atiq
    Summary:

    In Persian folklore, Syngue Sabour is the name of a magical black stone, a patience stone, which absorbs the plight of those who confide in it. It is believed that the day it explodes, after having received too much hardship and pain,...
  • The Pearl King and Other Poems
    Author:
    Greenwood, Catherine
    Summary:

    Notable Book in the 2005 Kiriyama Prize and longlisted for the 2005 ReLit Awards

    Catherine Greenwood draws on the stories and legends which surround the development of cultured pearls by Mikimoto, the fabulous Pearl King, to...
  • The Perils of Geography
    Author:
    Humphreys, Helen
    Summary:

    In her third book of poetry The Perils of Geography, Helen Humphreys charts a world that opens under the prodding and promise of language. With the wit and eye for evocative detail which gained readers for both Gods and...

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