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  • Author:
    Bluger, Marianne
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    Meditative, meticulously-crafted poems that nonetheless take seriously the idea that all poetry is a form of praise, and that "the habit of sadness just isn’t enough/ … / because it isn't joy." Gathering Wild is Marianne Bluger...

  • Author:
    Noyes, Steve
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    “In a sober and carefully understated voice I say: this is a damn good poet.” Al Purdy on Backing into Heaven 

    Ghost Country enters the difficult electric air between cultures and lovers, alive to the fierce...

  • Author:
    Humphreys, Helen
    Summary:

    Don Gutteridge approaches his home town of Point Edward, Ontario, with an array of listening and recording devices, mixing poetry, documentary newspaper collage, interviews and photography. A milestone in the documentary poem.

    “A...

  • Author:
    Walsh, Agnes
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    Shortlisted for the 2008 Pat Lowther Award and the 2009 Heritage and History Book Award [Writers Alliance of Newfoundland and Labrador], nominated for LGBT Poetry (2008 Lambda Literary Awards) and longlisted for the 2008 ReLit Awards...

  • Author:
    Munro, Jane
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    Jane Munro’s poems are explorations of the mysteries of inner experience. What are the truths of emotion? What can the body know? In Grief Notes & Animal Dreams, Munro’s third collection, we enter the condition Gaston...

  • Author:
    Wheeler, Sue
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    In her third collection of poems, Sue Wheeler writes of the ephemeral with an eye trained on the eternal questions. “Who are you?” she asks at the outset of her search for fresh and more telling names for the human in the lush natural...

  • Author:
    Lee, John B.
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    Shortlisted for the 1987 Milton Acorn Memorial People’s Poetry Prize

    The hired hand of these poems was a stupid man. Nowadays he would be known as one of the employable retarded. Tom was lucky enough to find work and a home with...

  • Author:
    Smart, Carolyn
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    Longlisted for the 2010 ReLit Award

    Hooked is a stunning new collection of seven poems about seven famous or infamous women: Myra Hindley, Unity Mitford, Zelda Fitzgerald, Dora Carrington, Carson McCullers, Jane Bowles,...

  • Author:
    Young, Deanna
    Summary:

    Finalist for the 2015 Trillium Book Award for Poetry, the Archibald
    Lampman Award, City of Ottawa Book Awards and the ReLit Award

    A book of dark corners and shifting locations, full of switches that light up
    the...

  • Author:
    Howe, Ken
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    Winner of the 2001 Anne Szumigalski Award for Poetry and shortlisted for the 2001 Regina Book Award (Saskatchewan Book Awards).  Shortlisted for the 2002 Gerald Lampert Award and longlisted for the 2002 ReLit Awards.

    from “Max’s...

  • Author:
    Gould, Nora
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    Winner of the 2013 Robert Kroetsch Edmonton Book Prize
    and the Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry (Writers Guild of Alberta)

    Shortlisted for Gerald Lampert Memorial Award
    and a finalist for the High Plains Book...

  • Author:
    Elmslie, Susan
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    Winner of the 2006 A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry and shortlisted for the McAuslan First Book Prize (Quebec Writers’ Federation).
    Shortlisted for the 2007 Pat Lowther Award and the 2007 ReLit Awards.

    Poems that reach towards...

  • Author:
    Hartog, Diana
    Summary:

    “… like Emily Dickinson, Hartog melds the ordinary with the visionary….” — Joseph Stroud, author of Below Cold Mountain and Country of Light

    Ink Monkey is Diana Hartog’s first book of poetry in more...

  • Author:
    Seymour, David
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    Shortlisted for the 2006 Gerald Lampert Award

    Inter Alia is the long-awaited first collection by one of Canada’s most talented young poets. His work has been widely published in journals and was selected by Lorna Crozier...

  • Author:
    Bread, Pain Not
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    Introduction to the Introduction to the Introduction by André Alexis

    For me, reading the Introduction was like being caught in a spring shower while waiting for the 41, and running into a library to get out of the rain...

  • Author:
    Dempster, Barry
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    Virtuosic poems tracking two intertwined themes: the breakdown of an obsessive love affair and the vicissitudes of middle age.

    Invisible Dogs, Dempster’s fourteenth collection, is a complex but deeply coherent hymn to...

  • Author:
    Conn, Jan
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    Jaguar Rain is a rare text: at once a book of stand-alone poems and a work of scholarship, with textual notes and bibliography. Written in the voice of Margaret Mee (naturalist, explorer, and painter of flowers in the Amazon...

  • Author:
    Trainor, Kim
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    A remarkable debut that expresses a humanism grounded in physiology.

    At the heart of Karyotype is the Beauty of Loulan, a woman who lived four thousand years ago, her body preserved in the cool, dry sands of the...

  • Author:
    Dickinson, Adam
    Summary:

    Shortlisted for the 2007 Trillium Book Award for Poetry

    Ecologically aware poems, hardwired to the intellect and the heart in equal measure.

    Adam Dickinson’s poems, with firm intellectual bite and imaginative scope, reach...

  • Author:
    Smith, Douglas Burnet
    Summary:

    In his fifth book of poetry, Douglas Burnet Smith tunes his eye and ear closely to the world, conscious of those points where the everyday blossoms into fierce magic. The title sequence is a deftly-rendered homage to the work of Georgia...

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