Winner of the J.M. Abraham Poetry Award at the East Coast Literary Awards and
Finalist for the 2013 Governor General’s Award for Poetry
From a master poet, meditative lines running like veins through the dark grace of...
Poetry
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Author:Domanski, DonSummary: - Author:Watson, RenéeSummary:
A thoughtful celebration of Black girlhood by award-winning author and poet Renée Watson. In this semi-autobiographical collection of poems, Renée Watson writes about her experience growing up as a young Black girl at the...
- Author:Green, HaroldSummary:
Harold Green III, poet and founder of the music collective Flowers for the Living, honors the Black men he most admires, including Tyler Perry, Barry Jenkins, Billy Porter, Chance the Rapper, LeBron James, Colin Kaepernick, and John...
- Author:Green, HaroldSummary:
To honor how Black women use their minds, talent, passion, and power to transform society, Harold Green began writing love letters in verse which he shared on his Instagram account. Balm for our troubled times, his tributes to...
- Author:Reibetanz, DavidSummary:
The poems in Black Suede Cave meditate on the space inside us, where darkness and imagination animate the unknowable. They illuminate the shadows of memory that slip into our darker corners, reveal by lamplight the nightscape of Toronto...
- Author:Shire, WarsanSummary:
Poems of migration, womanhood, trauma, and resilience from the celebrated collaborator on Beyonce's Black Is King and Lemonade, award-winning Somali-British poet Warsan Shire. With her first full-length poetry collection, Warsan Shire...
- Author:Béha, PhilippeSummary:
La mer, le chagrin, le ciel, les Touaregs, l’amour et les sirènes… le bleu est partout dans nos coeurs. Dans cet album poétique, Philippe Béha nous dépeint, en mots et en images, tout ce que lui inspire la couleur bleue. Cet album...
- Author:Hamilton, J. A.Summary:
Shortlisted for the 1991 Pat Lowther Award
In J.A. Hamilton’s poems blood is red, black hearts are black. There is no flinching from things as bad as they can be, especially but not only for women. And yet, this passionate...
- Author:Cohen, LeonardSummary:
Leonard Cohen wrote this book of poems during his five-year stay at a Zen monastery on Southern California's Mount Baldy, and in Los Angeles, Montreal, and Mumbai.
- Author:Nudelman, MerleSummary:
Weaving together complex layers of personal and political history, this collection of poems traces a Jewish family's path from 1930s Europe to 21st-century Canada. Recalling the delicate, enduring family bonds that have held fast...
- Author:Boucaud, S. I.Summary:
The stories and poetry in this book came to the writer between the years 2013 and 2017. She believes that stories have the power to disclose, heal, lead, and, for many, to transform. Her stories have been described as sometimes loving,...
- Author:Truscott, MarkSummary:
Careful attention reveals that, even in moments that seem insignificant, our minds are constantly navigating disjunctions among registers of experience. Our intellect silently reminds our eyes that the car that appears to be moving...
- Author:DiGiovanni, Caroline MorganSummary:
This is the third anthology of Italian Canadian writers organized and edited by Caroline Morgan Di Giovanni with support from Centro Scuola e Cultura Italiana, Toronto. The first Italian Canadian Voices in 1984 contained the first...
- Author:Sinclair, SueSummary:
Shortlisted for 2009 Pat Lowther Memorial Award
and the Atlantic Poetry PrizeThe essence, the quintessence, of lyric poetry.
Sue Sinclair is the direct inheritor of the great early 20th Century German poet, Rilke:...
- Author:Hancock, BreckenSummary:
Nothing slips by Brecken Hancock’s deft ear as she seductively plumbs the depths of the evolution of bathing, doppelgängers, the Kraken and the minutiae of family with all its tragic misgivings. The poems in Broom Broom pervert the...
- Author:Felix, CamonghneSummary:
In this full-length collection of poetry, Camonghne Felix redefines the language of collective and individual trauma through lyric and memory.
- Author:Carrino, MichaelSummary:
By Available Light is an education on how lost time can be recovered through poetry, how the murky, clogged waters of the past can be clarified by words and made to flow again. This book of Michael Carrino’s new and selected poetry...
- Author:Césaire, AiméSummary:
" Et nous sommes debout maintenant, mon pays et moi, les cheveux dans le vent, ma main petite maintenant dans son poing énorme et la force n'est pas en nous, mais au-dessus de nous, dans une voix qui vrille la nuit et l'...
- Author:Gorman, AmandaSummary:
The instant #1 New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestseller The breakout poetry collection by #1 New York Times bestselling author and presidential inaugural poet Amanda Gorman Formerly titled The Hill We Climb and...
- Author:Barnes, MikeSummary:
Shortlisted for the 1997 Gerald Lampert Award
The poems in Calm Jazz Sea reveal a world forever becoming and disappearing, watched over and handled gently by the compassionate intelligence of Mike Barnes. In the everyday...
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