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  • Undone
    Author:
    Goyette, Sue
    Summary:

    Shortlisted for the 2005 Atlantic Poetry Prize, the 2005 Dartmouth Book Award and the 2005 Acorn-Plantos Award for People’s Poetry

    Undone is a cornucopia of passionate poems arranged into three sections. “Forgotten” has...
  • Variations on Herb
    Author:
    Lee, John B.
    Summary:

    Winner of the 1995 Milton Acorn Memorial People’s Poetry Prize

    Variations on Herb is the latest in a lengthening series of books that emanate from the south-western Ontario farm of John B. Lee's childhood. The focus of...
  • Vox Humana
    Author:
    Pierce, E. Alex
    Summary:

    Poems of great passion and tenderness, as close to rapture as a writer can get and still hold on.

    E. Alex Pierce’s voice can be heard echoing down the long corridors of memory and myth.  It’s not that these poems live in the past...
  • When Earth Leaps Up
    Author:
    Szumigalski, Anne
    Summary:

    Edited by Mark Abley; Preface by Hilary Clark; Afterword by Mark Abley

    ” … one of Canada’s major poets. The audacity – the courage – of her imagination teaches us, gives us our better selves.” — Tim Lilburn

    This posthumous...
  • When This World Comes to an End
    Author:
    Cayley, Kate
    Summary:

    Poems that journey through a tapestry of myths, archetypes and fables; of histories invented and revisited.

    Kate Cayley’s is a mind both studious and curious, deeply attuned to the question “what if?” What if Nick Drake and Emily...
  • Woodshedding
    Author:
    Venart, S.E.
    Summary:

    Longlisted for the 2008 ReLit Awards

    Whatever their subject — the unwinding of lovers, childhood as the foundation of being, the metaphorical life of everyday objects and events — S.E. Venart’s poems show us a kind of courage...
  • worn thresholds
    Author:
    Berry, Julie
    Summary:

    Reading Julie Berry’s poetry means entering a new poetic space, crossing thresholds of pain and delight at once raw and refined. “like marie d’oignies who buried bloody/ mouthfuls of herself/ in the garden/ i need my poems to be like...
  • Year Zero
    Author:
    Henderson, Brian
    Summary:

    Year Zero is the time of hushed beginnings and endings, the place of naming and unnaming, where language, strange to itself, tiptoes along songlines as though following passages of Koto music. In Brian Henderson’s poetry,...
  • Your Last Day on Earth
    Author:
    Hartsfield, Carla
    Summary:

    Longlisted for the 2004 ReLit Awards

    Carla Hartsfield sings praises to the unusual: a rose blooming in December; an angel dancing on a cardiologist’s scanner; Glenn Gould playing Brahms at Angelo’s Garage. But these are common...

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