Daniel Sloate (1931-2009) was a prolific poet, playwright and translator.
Poetry
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Author:Sloate, DanielSummary: - Author:Rhodes, ShaneSummary:
A vital collection that interrogates the stories of the dead white men that litter our histories and landscapes. Juxtaposing the seemingly benign names of Europeans that permeate our geographies with the details of their so-called...
- Author:Rogers, DamianSummary:
I'm ill-equipped for this. I sit by a fake fireplace that frames a real flame. I've been crossed by two crows today. 'Multi-vectored, Rogers's poems hum with life and tension, their speaker poised as mother, seer, reporter and daughter...
- Author:Atwood, MargaretSummary:
The collection of a lifetime from the bestselling novelist and poet. By turns moving, playful and wise, the poems gathered in Dearly are about absences and endings, ageing and retrospection, but also about gifts and renewals. They...
- Author:Giroux, RobertSummary:
Le recueil est articulé autour de trois propos distincts : le vieillissement et la mort qui rôdent et menacent les proches, le désir d’ouvrir les frontières du quotidien et l’idée que la vraie vie ne peut être qu’en soi. La dernière...
- Author:Berrouët-Oriol, RobertSummary:
EXTRAIT et voici que bateleur des sens je te recouds rituelle grammaire sous les plages secrètes de ma langue et me profile neuve cuvée d’incises à ta semblance voyelles nues la gorge tatouée de syllabes crépues et par tracées de...
- Author:Foucher, CarolanneSummary:
Je suis un fantôme. Je suis au milieu d'une grande sœur et d'un petit frère. Mes notes à l'école c'est B, des fois B. Je suis pas tellement populaire, mais pas tellement l'inverse non plus. Je suis toujours quelque chose entre les deux...
- Author:Franco, JamesSummary:
The debut poetry collection by the actor, director, and writer James Franco. I’m a nocturnal creature, And I’m here to cheat time. You can see time and exhaustion Taking pay from my face—In fifty years My sleep will be death, I’ll go...
- Author:Ross, Diane-IshaSummary:
Il y avait deux filles, l’une au ras de la ville, l’autre dans le puits, et chacune voyait ses étoiles, et la nuit protégeait leur privauté. Ça aurait pu bien tourner, mais la peur et la peur d’avoir mal de soi blessant l’autre et...
- Author:Dempster, BarrySummary:
Shortlisted for the 2017 Raymond Souster Award
A beloved poet explores why life is so rich, even at the worst of times.
Disturbing the Buddha, Barry Dempster’s fifteenth collection, is disarmingly conversational...
- Author:Bitar, WalidSummary:
In Divide and Rule, Walid Bitar delivers a sequence of dramatic monologues, variations on the theme of power, each in rhymed quatrains. Though the pieces grow out of Bitar’s personal experiences over the last decade, both in North...
- Author:Johnstone, JimSummary:
Like the “page turned down to make another / page,” Dog Ear explores the marks we leave on a world whose social and political markers are constantly shifting. In his fourth book of poems—and most powerful work to date—Jim Johnstone...
- Author:Donlan, JohnSummary:
A sequence of fifty dated poems, four quatrains each; lyrical arguments; quick thinking amid the rational absurdity of everyday machinery; intuitive explorations of unknown energies; a diary of the unconscious.
- Author:SPENCER, DonSummary:
Think of Australian animals and you think of the koala, kangaroo, emu and platypus. The author has written about these animals and, in addition, the little Aussie mozzie, the wombat, and a host of other animals from the Australian bush...
- Author:Smith, DanezSummary:
Finalist for the National Book Award for Poetry. Winner of the Forward Prize for Best Collection. Award-winning poet Danez Smith is a groundbreaking force, celebrated for deft lyrics, urgent subjects, and performative power. Don't...
- Author:Lauterbach, Ann.Summary:
Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2023 by LitHub A new collection of vivid, personal and provocative work from the author of Or to Begin Again, a finalist for the 2009 National Book Award in poetry In Ann Lauterbach's eleventh collection...
- Author:Sokolovski, MayaSummary:
The stories, poems, and sundry pieces that form Maya Sokolovski’s debut collection, Double-Click Flash Fic, are written in an experimental style that spans the epistolary, the postmodern, the lyric, and the absurd. Together they chart...
- Author:Dowling, SarahSummary:
How can we carve private spaces from discarded publics? DOWN takes junk language – with cameos by Frank O’Hara, Frank Ocean, Aaliyah and the Temptations – and distresses it, building sonically dense poems that are caught between the...
- Author:Dodds, JeramySummary:
Following the Fratellini Family of clowns, Jeramy Dodds astonishes readers and non-readers alike. Techniques such as his patented triumph, the Grand Mal Caesura, along with other favourites, are on display inside. Dodds is a warlock of...
- Author:Momaday, N. ScottSummary:
Influenced by his Native American heritage and its oral storytelling traditions, here are prose poems about nature, animals, warriors, and hunters, as well as meditations that explore themes of love, loss, time, and memory.
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