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  • The Luskville Reductions
    Author:
    Reid, Monty
    Summary:

    Shortlisted for the 2009 Lampman-Scott Award (for the best book of poetry in the National Capital Region)

    A book of lyrics, fragmented, extended, and recovered, which read as a single long poem.

    The Luskville...
  • The Martha Landscapes
    Author:
    Thibaudeau, Colleen
    Summary:

    Readers of Colleen Thibaudeau's selected poems, My Granddaughters Are Combing Out Their Long Hair, will feel at home in The Martha Landscapes, where domestic dearness and the exotic, like strangers, "make their first...
  • The Pearl King and Other Poems
    Author:
    Greenwood, Catherine
    Summary:

    Notable Book in the 2005 Kiriyama Prize and longlisted for the 2005 ReLit Awards

    Catherine Greenwood draws on the stories and legends which surround the development of cultured pearls by Mikimoto, the fabulous Pearl King, to...
  • The Perils of Geography
    Author:
    Humphreys, Helen
    Summary:

    In her third book of poetry The Perils of Geography, Helen Humphreys charts a world that opens under the prodding and promise of language. With the wit and eye for evocative detail which gained readers for both Gods and...
  • The Secret Signature of Things
    Author:
    Joseph, Eve
    Summary:

    Shortlisted for the 2010 City of Victoria Butler Book Prize
    and the 2011 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize

    Transparent poems that gesture gracefully toward the great silence at the heart of things.

    Much of this poised...
  • The Sutler
    Author:
    Kenyon, Michael
    Summary:

    If we do not sleep together by March then we will break apart.
    Now is the first. Now the second. Now the third. Now the fourth.
    If we do not lie down together, you wanting me, I you,

    we will break apart. Now is the...
  • The True Names of Birds
    Author:
    Goyette, Sue
    Summary:

    Nominated for the 1999 Governor General’s Award for Poetry, the 1999 Pat Lowther Award and the 1999 Gerald Lampert Award and Globe 100 book for 1999

    The True Names of Birds is the first book-length collection from a...
  • The Truth of Houses
    Author:
    Scowcroft, Ann
    Summary:

    Winner of the 2011 Concordia University First Book Prize, Quebec Writers’ Federation Literary Awards

    Shortlisted for the 2012 Award for People’s Poetry (Acorn-Plantos Award Committee)

    Poems exploring the idea of home and...
  • The Vicinity
    Author:
    O'Meara, David
    Summary:

    Winner of the 2004 Archibald Lampman Award (National Capital Region – Ottawa) and shortlisted for the 2004 Trillium Book Award for Poetry and the 2004 ReLit Awards

    In The Vicinity David O’Meara gives us a new kind of...
  • The Way to Come Home
    Author:
    Smart, Carolyn
    Summary:

    The Way to Come Home is Carolyn Smart's fourth book of poems. It is a collection that ranges from celebrating the rural landscape north of Kingston, Ontario to re-creating the painful last phase of her friend Bronwen Wallace's...
  • The Whole Elephant
    Author:
    Cookshaw, Marlene
    Summary:

    Shortlisted for the 1990 Dorothy Livesay Award for Poetry (BC Book Prizes)

    Marlene Cookshaw is a Cheshire cat of a poet whose naturally realized details illuminate a shifting wholeness on the "singing edge" between dream and...
  • The Woman Downstairs
    Author:
    Bruck, Julie
    Summary:

    Winner of the 1994 A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry (QSPELL, now the Quebec Writers' Federation)

    In The Woman Downstairs, eloquence joins intimately with an attentive and hungry eye. Julie Bruck explores the accidents and...
  • Thin Air of the Knowable
    Author:
    Donawa, Wendy
    Summary:

    An elegiac and incisive debut that blends poems of social justice
    with poems of ordinary life

    In her first collection, Thin Air of the Knowable, the physical landscapes of Wendy Donawa’s life—West Coast, Caribbean...
  • Thin Moon Psalm
    Author:
    Benning, Sheri
    Summary:

    Winner of the 2007 Anne Szumigalski Award for Poetry and the 2007 City of Saskatoon Prize and nominated for Book of the Year (Saskatchewan Book Awards) and longlisted for the 2008 ReLit Awards

    Fierce and delicate poems from a...
  • This Brighter Prison A Book of Journeys
    Author:
    Connelly, Karen
    Summary:

    In her first book of poetry since The Small Words in My Body, which won the Pat Lowther Prize for 1990, Karen Connelly writes, in the tradition of the writer-adventurer, of vivid encounters and reflections abroad and at home,...
  • This World We Invented
    Author:
    Souaid, Carolyn Marie
    Summary:

    Shortlisted for the 2016 ReLit Award

    A razor-sharp eye for detail roams and redeems imperfections
    both personal and collective.

    The world in Carolyn Marie Souaid’s latest collection is both an act of the imagination...
  • To Kill a White Dog
    Author:
    Lee, John B.
    Summary:

    A long poem dramatizing the clash in visions of the land which occurs when a white settler builds on a sacred Iroquois site.
  • Torch River
    Author:
    Phillips, Elizabeth
    Summary:

    Winner, Lesbian Poetry at the 2008 GCLS Literary Awards (Golden Crown Literary Awards) and nominated for LGBT Poetry at the Lambda Literary Awards

    Shortlisted for the 2007 Anne Szumigalsi Award for Poetry and the 2007 Saskatoon...
  • Toward a Catalogue of Falling
    Author:
    Cook, Méira
    Summary:

    Shortlisted for the 1997 Pat Lowther Award and for the 1997 McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award

    Toward a Catalogue of Falling, Méira Cook’s second full-length book, proves that the fall into language can be both...
  • Two Tragedies in 429 Breaths
    Author:
    Paddon, Susan
    Summary:

    Winner of the J.M. Abraham Poetry Award (East Coast Literary Awards)

    Chekhov’s work and life fuse with a daughter’s caring for her dying mother in this powerful debut.

    Two Tragedies in 429 Breaths is a book-length...

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