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  • YYC POP : poetic portraits of people
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    YYC POP is the legacy project by Calgary Poet Laureate, Sheri-D Wilson. A collection of poetry written by current and ex-pat Calgarians, the works contained in the collection celebrate ordinary and extraordinary Calgarians. She asked...
  • Your Last Day on Earth
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    Hartsfield, Carla
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    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...
  • You still look the same : poems
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    Doctor, Farzana
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    "A moving collection of poetry about navigating mid-life, full of humour and wit, from acclaimed novelist Farzana Doctor. This debut poetry collection from acclaimed novelist Farzana Doctor is both an intimate deep dive and a humorous...
  • You still look the same : poems
    Author:
    Doctor, Farzana
    Summary:

    A moving collection of poetry about navigating mid-life, full of humour and wit, from acclaimed novelist Farzana Doctor. This debut poetry collection from acclaimed novelist Farzana Doctor is both an intimate deep dive and a humorous...
  • You Must Work Harder to Write Poetry of Excellence Craft Discourse and the Common Reader in Canadian Poetry Book Reviews
    Author:
    Mancini, Donato
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    While Canadian poetic practices have steadily pluralised since the early 1960s, the poetry review has remained stubbornly constant. You Must Work Harder to Write Poetry of Excellence is a critical, and at times hilarious survey of...
  • You can't bury them all : poems
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    Woodcock, Patrick
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    A poetry that is at once harrowing, angry, and achingly beautiful

    Patrick Woodcock has spent the past seven years engaging with and being shaped by the people, politics, and landscapes of the Kurdish...
  • Yellow crane : poems
    Author:
    Gillis, Susan
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    Inviting, human, capacious poems that grapple with ideas while also lightly grieving our capacity for ruin.
  • Year Zero
    Author:
    Henderson, Brian
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    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,...
  • worn thresholds
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    Berry, Julie
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    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...
  • Word problems : poems
    Author:
    Williams, Ian
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    "From Ian Williams, author of Reproduction, winner of the Giller Prize and a June 2020 Indie Next Great Read Frustrated by how tough the issues of our time are to solve - racial inequality, our pernicious depression, the troubled...
  • Woodshedding
    Author:
    Venart, S.E.
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    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...
  • Wolf sonnets
    Author:
    LaRose, R. P.
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    In his commanding poetry debut, Wolf Sonnets, R. P. LaRose undoes the sonnet's classical constraints, retooling the form for current political circumstances. Packed with family lore, these poems reflect on how deeply we can trust...
  • Without Blue
    Author:
    D'Iorio, Chris
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    Tragic-comedic genius emerges in this first book by Chris D’Iorio, kaleidoscopically vivid poetry that is commoditized with the placid title of Without Blue, innocently confessing a condition of lack-lustre lack. A few disarmingly...
  • Winter cranes
    Author:
    Banks, Chris
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    In Asian folklore cranes symbolize longevity, immortality, and good fortune. In Winter Cranes, his third collection, award–winning poet Chris Banks conjures these birds when he sees herons near his home towards the end of a...
  • Wind leaves absence
    Author:
    Maxwell, Mary
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    These poems are steeped in loss and lament as they concern the death of the poet’s family members, particularly her father and the premature death of two brothers two years apart. The collection’s tone is often elegiac, but rarely...
  • Wildness rushing in
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    Hobsbawn-Smith, Dee
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    In this amazing first collection of poetry, Habsbawn-Smith displays a skill and passion for capturing and creating experience through language. Here is a new, and original voice that sparks with intelligence in its full-tilt...
  • Wild madder
    Author:
    Leifso, Brenda
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    Poems that stride bravely into the day-to-day, recovering the misdirected intensity at its core. Brenda Leifso’s Wild Madder is about way-finding—through those moments in which you no longer recognize where you are. It’s about not...
  • Whiteout
    Author:
    Murray, George
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    Poetry that explores how accidental voyeurism can force reconsideration and reconciliation
     

    White⋅out: n. a surface condition … in which no object casts a shadow, the horizon cannot be seen, and only dark objects...
  • While supplies last
    Author:
    Lahey, Anita
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    Anita Lahey writes the kind of rigorously observed, emotionally charged poetry few can match. In While Supplies Last, her first collection in eleven years, Lahey throws herself on the mercy of a changing climate, takes refuge in art and...
  • Wherever we mean to be : selected poems, 1975-2015
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    Sarah, Robyn
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    Spanning forty years and ten previously published collections, Wherever We Mean to Be is the first substantial selection of Robyn Sarah's poems in twenty-five years. This new volume showcases the versatility of a poet who moves...

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