2016 Goodreads Choice Award-winning poet Amanda Lovelace returns in the witch doesn't burn in this one - the bold second book in her "women are some kind of magic" series. The witch: supernaturally powerful, inscrutably independent, and...
Poetry
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Author:Lovelace, AmandaSummary: - Author:Lane, M. TravisSummary:
Winner, New Brunswick Book Award for PoetryA Quill & Quire Best Book of the Year. Like the novella in fiction, the long poem is an oft-neglected form. Too long for publication in most literary journals and anthologies, too short to...
- Author:Bruck, JulieSummary:
Winner of the 1994 A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry (QSPELL, now the Quebec Writers' Federation)
In The Woman Downstairs, eloquence joins intimately with an attentive and hungry eye. Julie Bruck explores the accidents and...
- Author:McKinney, LouiseSummary:
A sense of place has always dominated Louise McKinney's writing life. This poetry collection represents the best of her poetry written from the early 1980s to now. More than depicting mere geographical adventuring, this work expresses...
- Author:Walker, AliceSummary:
"Poetry is leading us," writes Alice Walker in The World Will Follow Joy. In this dazzling collection, the beloved writer offers over sixty new poems to incite and nurture contemporary activists. Hailed as a "lavishly...
- Author:Lane, PatrickSummary:
Lane is not only an accomplished writer, he is also an avid gardener; and he is an alcoholic. In 1999, he went into rehab, then returned to his beloved garden, shaky but alive. For a year, he stayed close to home, gardening and slowly...
- Author:Donawa, WendySummary:
An elegiac and incisive debut that blends poems of social justice
with poems of ordinary lifeIn her first collection, Thin Air of the Knowable, the physical landscapes of Wendy Donawa’s life—West Coast, Caribbean...
- Author:Benning, SheriSummary:
Winner of the 2007 Anne Szumigalski Award for Poetry and the 2007 City of Saskatoon Prize and nominated for Book of the Year (Saskatchewan Book Awards) and longlisted for the 2008 ReLit Awards
Fierce and delicate poems from a...
- Author:Desautels, DeniseSummary:
In French, Tombeau de Lou. At its origin, the death of the childhood friend, the chosen sister, swept away by a sudden cancer. She was fifty-three. Like the poet. The one who remains, the survivor, the inconsolable woman. That's the...
- Author:Abu Toha, MosabSummary:
Winner of the American Book Award, the Palestine Book Award and Arrowsmith Press's 2023 Derek Walcott Poetry Prize. National Book Critics Circle Award for Poetry Finalist. "Written from his native Gaza, Abu Toha's...
- Author:Connelly, KarenSummary:
In her first book of poetry since The Small Words in My Body, which won the Pat Lowther Prize for 1990, Karen Connelly writes, in the tradition of the writer-adventurer, of vivid encounters and reflections abroad and at home,...
- Author:Christy, JimSummary:
COCKEYED: askew, crooked, intoxicated, absurd; marked by bends or angles; incongruous, not straight. In other words, Jim Christy, Canada's most iconoclastic and irreverent poet, views this cockeyed world the way it is; not only with 20/...
- Author:KlipschutzSummary:
This Drawn & Quartered Moon makes pre-millennial San Francisco its epicenter, and from there ranges out in time and space. Characters abound. The reader will meet a plagiarist, a Vietnam vet named Othello, a Mafia don, a drug mule...
- Author:Alexander, KwameSummary:
A breathtaking poetry collection on hope, heart, and heritage from the most prominent and promising Black poets and writers of our time, edited by Why Fathers Cry at Night author and #1 New York Times bestselling author Kwame Alexander...
- Author:Verdicchio, PasqualeSummary:
Revealing the instability of location and the illusory nature of identity, this poetry collection traces the edges where the multidimensional blends, blurs, and merges, envisioning a place where form is formless and perception boundless...
- Author:Souaid, Carolyn MarieSummary:
Shortlisted for the 2016 ReLit Award
A razor-sharp eye for detail roams and redeems imperfections
both personal and collective.The world in Carolyn Marie Souaid’s latest collection is both an act of the imagination...
- Author:AYRES, PamSummary:
These new poems are as outrageous, as wildly funny and as enormously enjoyable as those that made the author so vastly popular.
- Author:Janzen, JeanSummary:
This well-received collection features three poets who differ widely in culture and style, yet are rooted in common values. Yorifumi Yaguchi is a well-known Japanese poet and professor. Jean Janzen is a Fresno, California, poet whose...
- Author:Anedda, Antonella, Snodgrass, AnnSummary:
Antonella Anedda (Anedda-Angioy) was born in Rome to a Sardinian family and studied Art History both in Rome and Venice. She has taught at the University of Siena-Arezzo, worked for the journal Il Manifesto, and collaborated on the...
- Author:Holbrook, Susan L.Summary:
In 1934, Gertrude Stein asked 'What is poetry and if you know what poetry is what is prose.' Throaty Wipes answers this question and many more! How does broadband work? Does 'chuffed' mean pleased or displeased? What if the generations...
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