A prose/poetry sequence concerning the hanged man of London, Ontario, by the award-winning author of Birding, or Desire; Sanding Down This Rocking Chair on a Windy Night; Night Field; Apparatus and Another Gravity.
Brick Books Poetry
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Author:McKay, DonSummary: - Author:Radu, KennethSummary:
The writer of the letter in Kenneth Radu's title poem is reaching across an enormous silence: from a microchipped contemporary Canadian setting to the rest home on the Black Sea where his father is dying; and then even further, back to...
- Author:Dempster, BarrySummary:
Tuning a fine ear to Lawrence’s letters from 1906 until his death in 1930, Barry Dempster’s poems uncover the man within the myth and give voice to Lawrence’s passionate mortality. Dempster’s act is one of imagination and homage, a kind...
- Author:Glenn, Lorri NeilsenSummary:
Poems of great loss and deep questioning, wringing beauty out of potential despair.
In the opening poem of Lost Gospels, Lorri Neilsen Glenn writes of Mahalia Jackson and Blind Willie Johnson:
… they sang, oh yes...
- Author:Dempster, BarrySummary:
A love affair chronicled – from obsession to heartbreak, foolhardiness to faith.
In Love Outlandish, Barry Dempster undoes all the clichés that have barnacled our love lives and, with the zest and courage typical of his...
- Author:Moritz, A. F.Summary:
Few artists (one thinks of Rilke and Hopkins) have presumed to evoke the spirit of embodied Nature. A. F. Moritz not only succeeds in thus animating a living world, but he deals with our human presence and assault on it with sympathy...
- Author:Hoogland, CorneliaSummary:
Near the centre of Marrying the Animals, Cornelia Hoogland’s new book of poetry, is the sequence “In the Meantime: Elizabeth Smart Poems” Hoogland’s exploration of Smart’s obsession with the poet George Barker is an apt heart...
- Author:Keefer, Janice KulykSummary:
Winner of the 1999 CAA Canadian Authors Association Award for Poetry and shortlisted for the 1999 Pat Lowther Award
Fantasies and meditations on friendship and on love: erotic, romantic, tormented, spurned, married, illicit,...
- Author:Reid, MontySummary:
Shortlisted for the ReLit Award for Poetry.
A wide-ranging meditation by an accomplished poet on the uncontainable materiality of the world.
From yoghurt tubs to pop-up books to bobcats, from cement trucks to lost socks to...
- Author:Schott, BarbaraSummary:
In Memoirs of an Almost Expedition, Barbara Schott peels back the skin of language to reveal its musculature, its bone. She also peels back the skin of relations, the intimate rub of self against self, to find both great...
- Author:Kazuk, A. R.Summary:
From Microphones there will be no returning to the standard detective story. This long poem/videotext ticks right along on its narrative marginalia alone, but its substance is an interplay of voices and its essence is high-...
- Author:Reibetanz, JohnSummary:
Reading John Reibetanz, one is struck with the way language, closely attended to, kept oiled and sharp, can give experience back its bite. And conversely, how experience can be the whetstone for language, chastening its presumptions and...
- Author:Reibetanz, JohnSummary:
Shortlisted for the 2001 ReLit Awards
John Reibetanz is good on grief: “You, mother,/ dying, left what was hard first:/ bones weeping into/ / your veins like flutes, teeth/ vanished on some hospital/ lunch tray” This conjunction...
- Author:Bruck, JulieSummary:
Winner of the 2012 Governor General’s Award for Poetry
Globe 100 Book for 2012
Shortlisted for Pat Lowther Memorial Award and CAA Award for Poetry 2013
Comic and sober by turns, these poems ask us
... - Author:Cook, MeiraSummary:
Shortlisted for the 2016 ReLit Award
Dazzling collection of masques from Manitoba Book of the Year– and Walrus Poetry Prize–winning author.
Monologue Dogs is a series of contemporary dramatic monologues. Every “...
- Author:Kleinzahler, AugustSummary:
This anthology cuts into the Canadian poetry scene on a fresh, oblique angle. Included are Robert Bringhurst, Margaret Avison, A.F. Moritz, Guy Birchard, Terry Humby, Alexander Hutchison and Brent MacKay.
- Author:Maggs, RandallSummary:
A new edition of a hockey saga, wrapping the game’s story
in the “intense, moody, contradictory” character of Terry Sawchuk,
one of its greatest goalies.Denied the leap and dash up the ice,
what goalies know... - Author:Humphreys, HelenSummary:
Alcuin Citation in 1991 for excellence in book design in Canada.
Nuns Looking Anxious, Listening to Radios is a work in the hazard of retrieval. What sticks in retrospect? Seldom what you would expect, not always the...
- Author:Price, StevenSummary:
Winner of the 2013 ReLit award for poetry
Omens, curses, the reading of entrails: means of grappling
with what is out of our hands, beyond our ken.Steven Price’s second collection is part of a long-lived struggle...
- Author:Bluger, MarianneSummary:
Marianne Bluger knows what it is to be at sea; oceans of sad and beautiful possibilities wash her poems. And she feels the warmth and fixity of anchorage in home. Tender by nature but tough at need, her language deftly negotiates a...
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