Many come to evil; many others search for a different way to be. Animated by the work of Caravaggio, Hendrik Slegtenhorst’s poems inquire, what is a pursuit of right action? Caravaggio, the murderous, brilliant 16th-century painter,...
Poetry
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Author:Slegtenhorst, HendrikSummary: - Author:Smart, CarolynSummary:
Second place winner in the 3rd Annual Fred Cogswell Award for Excellence in Poetry (2016)
Remember Bonnie & Clyde?
A complex, dramatic rendering of a familiar story made new.
Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow are...
- Author:Wells, ZachariahSummary:
By turns celebratory and sceptical, Career Limiting Moves is a selection of essays and reviews drawn from a decade of immersion in Canadian poetry. Inhabiting a milieu in which unfriendly remarks are typically spoken sotto voce - if at...
- Author:Kemick, Richard KellySummary:
At one moment, a pure abstraction; at the next, an incontrovertible presence of hooves, antlers, and fur. The beating heart of this assured début by Richard Kelly Kemick is the Porcupine caribou herd of the western Arctic. In Caribou...
- Author:Guénette, DanielSummary:
Carmen quadratum parce qu’ici le chant est carré, peu lyrique ; carré également dans le sens où une construction rigoureuse préside à son élaboration. Il convient d’aborder ces textes par les quatre côtés de l’ouvrage. En ce sens, celui...
- Author:Locas, JanisSummary:
Carpe et chienne est l’occasion pour Janis Locas – reconnue déjà pour la vivacité de son écriture dans La maudite Québécoise – de repousser les limites des genres dans une variété de textes parcourant les extrêmes de l’humeur. Le...
- Author:Brunet-Dragon, SarahSummary:
Depuis des millénaires, nos rapports au monde et aux autres sont déterminés par les histoires que nous échangeons, celles que nous nous transmettons d'une génération à l'autre, celles que nous oublions, refoulons ou nions, celles...
- Author:Dickinson, AdamSummary:
Shortlisted for the 2003 Henry Kreisel Award for Best First Book (Writers Guild of Alberta Award)
Without you,
I have taken to drawing maps
on the backs of photographs.
On the coast in a raincoat
your... - Author:Morency, JoanneSummary:
Cette lumière dans la paume, on ne l’espérait plus. Ces couleurs qui s’étirent sans se perdre. Toutes choses qui, soudain, semblent se connaître entre elles. Une oie blanche sur fond blanc... Et l’on retrouve ses premiers battements de...
- Author:Revulva, RasiqraSummary:
Cephalopography 2.0 is as much a passionate celebration of cephalopods in all their plurality and finery as it is a collection of poems exploring human identity and experience through the lens of these marine animals. Through...
- Author:Ltaif, Nadine, Tipper, ChristineSummary:
One woman's emotional and cultural journey is luxuriously illustrated in this moving collection, as she artfully recounts leaving Lebanon for a new life in Canada. In a voice that blends prose with poetry, she copes with the newfound...
- Author:Des Rosiers, JoëlSummary:
La chaux est l’encre des écrits divins. C’est donc à un Dieu à la main coupée, à ce point humain, que tout poète s’adresse comme limite de tout savoir. Plutôt que de prendre la parole, Joël Des Rosiers a voulu être enveloppé par elle,...
- Author:Ritchie, JaySummary:
With an alternating sense of wonder and detachment, Jay Ritchie's first full-length collection of poetry grapples with death, disappointment, love, emails – the large and small subjects of daily life. His unflagging sense of humour and...
- Author:Robertson, LisaSummary:
What if the cinema of the present were a Möbius strip of language, a montage of statements and questions sutured together and gradually accumulating colour? Would the seams afford a new sensibility around the pronoun ‘you’? Would the...
- Author:Rankine, ClaudiaSummary:
Claudia Rankine's bold new book recounts mounting racial aggressions in ongoing encounters in twenty-first-century daily life and in the media. Some of these encounters are slights, seeming slips of the tongue, and some are...
- Author:Bryden, Diana FitzgeraldSummary:
The early car’s mine.
I leave before the day
puts hardware on;
ride east all the way.I leave before the day
abandons slow calm.
Ride east all the way,
and now a stormabandons...
- Author:Ball, JonathanSummary:
Jonathan Ball’s Clockfire is a suite of poetic blueprints for imaginary plays that would be impossible to produce – plays in which, for example, the director burns out the sun, actors murder their audience or the laws of physics are...
- Author:Wynand, DerkSummary:
These flies on a white table burst
into shafts of light and touch down
again, sun-stricken,
the oil of their bodies breaking
light into all its parts.Not yet song, their buzzing proves
less... - Author:Nowlan, Alden, Bartlett, BrianSummary:
Alden Nowlan (1933-1983) once wrote of a desire to leave behind "one poem, one story / that will tell what it was like / to be alive." In an abundance of memorable poems, he fulfilled this desire with candour and subtlety, emotion, and...
- Author:Wallace, Bronwen, Smart, CarolynSummary:
Bronwen Wallace was recognized in the last decade of her short life as a major Canadian poet and a significant figure in the growth of the feminist movement. The author of five collections of poetry and a book of short fiction, most of...
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