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Canadian poetry--Women authors

  • While supplies last
    Author:
    Lahey, Anita
    Summary:

    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...
  • Where the terror lies
    Author:
    Lavoie, Chantel
    Summary:

    This collection offers five answers to the question its title implies: within us, in wild things, in change over time, in teething and in being left behind. Beginning in the prairies and moving both in time and direction, the poems...
  • The collected poems of Miriam Waddington : a critical edition
    Author:
    Panofsky, Ruth, Waddington, Miriam
    Summary:

    Miriam Waddington's verse is deceptively accessible: it is personal but never private, emotional but not confessional, thoughtful but never cerebral. The subtlety of her craft is the hallmark of a modernist poet whose work opens to...
  • Sonnet's Shakespeare
    Author:
    L'Abbé, Sonnet
    Summary:

    In 'Sonnet's Shakespeare,' one young, half-dougla (mixed South Asian and Black) poet tries to use 'the master's tools' on the Bard's 'house,' attempting to dismantle his monumental place in her psyche and in the poetic canon. In a...
  • Rock Creek blues
    Author:
    Poirier, Thelma
    Summary:

    Thelma Poirier writes of the land and its inhabitants – plant, animal, and human – in vivid and loving detail, with deep feeling and authenticity. In poetry that is spare, strong, and unsentimental, she describes the rancher’s life, a...
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    Author:
    Cadeau, Charmaine
    Summary:

    Disintegration, gaps in the historical record, and unaccounted-for absences hold these magically makeshift lyric poems together.

    Provisional, roaming, obsessed with remnants and deferrals, the poems in Charmaine Cadeau’s second...
  • Lost Gospels
    Author:
    Glenn, Lorri Neilsen
    Summary:

    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...
  • Ashland
    Author:
    Adamson, Gil
    Summary:

    We look away from his open mouth, / look instead at the corn, the crows / floating above the river in their private worries. / Tonight, when we turn in, / the candle will sputter and blow. Pinched out easily, all flame / gives way to...
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