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  • Measures of astonishment : poets on poetry
    Author:
    League of Canadian Poets
    Summary:

    A society without poetry and the other arts would have broken its mirror and cut out its heart.--"Margaret Atwood. So boldly insists one of our greatest writers in Measures of Astonishment, a refreshing and eclectic mix of both deeply...
  • Math for couples
    Author:
    Graf, Adele
    Summary:

    In Math for Couples, we re-visit the past to discover our place in the contemporary world. A long-dead father watches his daughter work on her Mac, a woman converses with a photo of her young self. Poet Adele Graf leads us on a journey...
  • Martial music
    Author:
    Amabile, George
    Summary:

    George Amabile's eleventh book and newest collection of poetry explores the relationships between civilization, technology, empire and human violence, theatres of war, the collateral damage of military occupation, the machinations...
  • Marrying the Animals
    Author:
    Hoogland, Cornelia
    Summary:

    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...
  • Magyarázni
    Author:
    Hajnoczky, Helen
    Summary:

    The word "magyarAzni" (pronounced MAUDE-yar-az-knee) means "to explain" in Hungarian, but translates literally as "make it Hungarian." This faux-Hungarian language primer, written in direct address, invites readers to experience what it...
  • Magnetic north : sea voyage to Svalbard
    Author:
    Butler, Jenna
    Summary:

    From the endangered Canadian boreal forest to the environmentally threatened Svalbard archipelago off the coast of Norway, Jenna Butler takes us on a sea voyage that connects continents and traces the impacts of climate change on...
  • Magnetic equator
    Author:
    Kellough, Kaie
    Summary:

    For readers of Danez Smith--an inventive and formally daring work from poet, novelist, and sound performer Kaie Kellough. The poems in Kaie Kellough's untitled third collection are inhabited by migration and distance. They are ghosts...
  • Lullabies in the real world : poems
    Author:
    Quartermain, Meredith
    Summary:

    A train trip across Canada; a trek back in time.
  • Love Outlandish
    Author:
    Dempster, Barry
    Summary:

    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...
  • Little wildheart
    Author:
    Maylor, Micheline
    Summary:

    By turns quirky, startling, earthy, and hope-filled, Micheline Maylor’s poems slip effortlessly through topics ranging from what we give up as we age to regrets for love that has passed, the interplay between the animal world and human...
  • Little empires
    Author:
    Colman, Robert
    Summary:

    Through the rapidly altered perspectives of romantic relationship and the demands of economic recession, Little Empires pursues what it means to own your changing landscape. In a deft and pithy, elegantly nuanced and urbane style,...
  • Listen. If
    Author:
    Barbour, Douglas
    Summary:

    first snow falling slow hangs in the air a curtain drifting there thickening sight —“Winter” In this new collection, Douglas Barbour experiments with what he calls “rhythmically intense open form.” Listen. If presents technically...
  • Limited verse
    Author:
    Martin, David
    Summary:

    At the close of the twenty-first century, a prison population awaits transport to a world where their memories will be Cleaned, and where they will be Harmonized into the language of New English, made up of only 850 words. One person,...
  • Liar
    Author:
    Crosbie, Lynn
    Summary:

    At once casting aside and reinventing the confessional mode, Liar is a booklength monument to love found, betrayed, renounced, and ultimately accepted as transformative. The white-hot immediacy of detail and scorching emotional honesty...
  • Letters in a bruised cosmos
    Author:
    Howard, Liz.
    Summary:

    The latest from the author of the Griffin Poetry Prize Award-winning collection Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent . Griffin Poetry Prize, Finalist. I have to believe my account will outpace its ending. The danger and necessity of...
  • Letters from a Long Illness with the World The D.H. Lawrence Poems
    Author:
    Dempster, Barry
    Summary:

    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...
  • Letter to a Distant Father
    Author:
    Radu, Kenneth
    Summary:

    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...
  • Letter from Brooklyn
    Author:
    Scheier, Jacob
    Summary:

    In Letter from Brooklyn, Jacob Scheier examines love, loss, history, identity, protest, and popular culture. At the heart of his new poems is the notion that we understand who we are by where we have been. Here, a confessional...
  • Let us not think of them as barbarians
    Author:
    Midgley, Peter
    Summary:

    Peter Midgley’s let us not think of them as barbarians is a bold narrative of love, migration, and war hewn from the stones of Namibia. Sensual and intimate, these evocative poems fold into each other to renew and undermine multiple...
  • Let us compare mythologies
    Author:
    Cohen, Leonard
    Summary:

    Published to immediate acclaim in 1956 when he was twenty-two years old, this is Leonard Cohen's first book and contains poems written between the ages of fifteen and twenty.

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