Longlisted for the 2008 ReLit Awards
Humane ethnographer, passionate memoirist, lyricist of the acute moment, Lorri Neilsen Glenn explores memory as legacy.
Lorri Neilsen Glenn’s poems welcome the reader into a place where...
Poetry
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Author:Glenn, Lorri NeilsenSummary: - Author:Connelly, KarenSummary:
Karen Connelly’s first collection of poetry since The Border Surrounds Us, the poet offers up a searing, complex portrayal of her troubled family. Refracted, augmented, drawn through various cities, streets and fields, over mountain...
- Author:Pinder, SarahSummary:
Common Place explores the stories of shifting, resilient bodies and landscapes bound by systems of capital and power. From thin threads of text messages across borders to encounters with strangers in the crush of rush-hour transit,...
- Author:Avison, MargaretSummary:
Winner of the 2003 Griffin Poetry Prize and of the 2003 CAA Jack Chalmers Poetry Award and Globe 100 book for 2003
“…Margaret Avison is a national treasure. For many decades she has forged a way to write, against the grain, some...
- Author:Harjo, JoySummary:
From poet laureate of the United States comes this collection of poems in which the joys and struggles of the everyday are played against the grinding politics of being human.
- Author:Book, ShaneSummary:
At once original, strange, funny, and unnerving, Shane Book's Congotronic takes the reader into unstable territory, where multiple layers of voice, diction, and music collide. Some of these poems have the sparse directness of a kind of...
- Author:Day, BrianSummary:
Provocative and alluring, Conjuring Jesus presents a disarmingly fresh portrait of the figure of Jesus. In poems disruptive and devotional, controversial and contemplative, it reveals a man moved by a persistent impulse toward sinuous...
- Author:Mali, TaylorSummary:
The evolution of Taylor Mali the poet could be measured in the number of people his poetry has directly inspired to be teachers. Or the increasing cast of high school and college-age students who perform his words in forensic...
- Author:Cadsby, HeatherSummary:
Poems about the unexpected and often wry coincidences language lends to life.
In Could be, each poem is a moment of engaged and isolated attention, prodding language, relationships, the mundane aspects of daily life,...
- Author:McGuire, AndySummary:
A lyrical wilderness of power, wealth, leisure and desire, the poems of Country Club freewheel across state lines with panache and flagrant feeling. In this bold debut from Andy McGuire, all passions – even unpleasant ones – stare down...
- Author:Roorda, JulieSummary:
The poems in Courage Underground burrow beneath the skin to examine the relationship between consciousness and body. They penetrate hidden emotions contained by vital organs; they enter the sensibilities of lower order creatures and...
- Author:Dodds, JeramySummary:
Winner of the Trillium Book Award for Poetry Nominated for the Griffin Poetry Prize and the Gerald Lampert Award. With cameos by jackalopes, Glenn Gould, homemade spaceships and Carl Linnaeus, these poems are remarkable for their...
- Author:La Chance, MichaëlSummary:
Les crapaudines sont des pierres précieuses que l’on croyait issues de la tête du crapaud. Elles sont en réalité des dents fossilisées de squales. Les poèmes qui nous sortent de la tête révèlent une sauvagerie antédiluvienne....
- Author:Lesynski, LorisSummary:
A collection of poems about soccer covers the equipment, the joy of playing the game, and how to never lose another game.
- Author:Sampirisi, JennySummary:
Croak is a frog-and-girl opera in three parts, played out like a YouTube mashup of mid-century cartoons, all set to a contemporary pop song. It parades, mutilates and reacquaints Kermit the Frog with Girl 00010111, Michigan J. with...
- Author:Pinder, SarahSummary:
Cutting Room both describes and pushes against the anxious hum of the technologically saturated present. Sarah Pinder's poems navigate domestic and 'natural' spaces as landscapes charged with possible violence and desire. Using hyper-...
- Author:Oswald, AliceSummary:
Over the course of three years Alice Oswald recorded conversations with people who live and work on the River Dart in Devon. Using these records and voices as a sort of poetic census, she creates in Dart a narrative of the river,...
- Author:Leifso, BrendaSummary:
Shortlisted for the 2009 Lampman-Scott Award (for the best book of poetry in the National Capital Region)
Vivid accessible poems revealing the mythic proportions of a seemingly simple, rural childhood and the passions that course...
- Author:Mordecai, PamelaSummary:
de book of Mary is an epic poem in Jamaican Creole based on the Biblical story of Mary, Joseph and Jesus. The first book of a trilogy, Pamela Mordecai's de book of Mary covers Mary's life from her early years, through the...
- Author:Wynand, DerkSummary:
Dead Man’s Float details that sad emblem of Western alienation, the tourist couple in their rented tropical Eden. Here life is temporary and not at all cheap. The wildlife is spectacular, the culture incomprehensible, and the...
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