Joan Shillington's third poetry collection, Let This Lake Remember - explores the loss of childhood innocence and fragility of life. From glorious moments to a tragic accident these poems reveal, through landscape influences, how...
Canadian poetry
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Author:McKay, DonSummary:A prose/poetry sequence concerning the hanged man of London, Ontario, by the award-winning author of Birding, or Desire; Sanding Down This Rocking Chair on a Windy Night; Night Field; Apparatus and Another Gravity.
- Author:Rubin, TalyaSummary:
St. Kilda is a barren, rocky archipelago 60 km off the west coast of Scotland. In 1930, harsh conditions led the islands’ remaining 36 inhabitants to relocate to the mainland. Left behind were seabirds and a population of feral sheep....
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Author:Potter, MarilynSummary:Leave-Taking moves through stages of grief — the reckoning, the remembering, the rituals — after the sudden death of a spouse. The poems trace reflections on a long marriage, and what it is like to be left behind. The poems...
- Author:Minor, MichaelSummary:
Navigating through tragedy with sincere inquiry, Learning to Love a River explores unlikely existences in and of Thunder Bay, a small northern Ontario city which is rife with stereotype and misconception. With its insider’s perspective...
- Author:MC JuneSummary:
"Le slam de MC June est une poésie du quotidien, coup de poing, qui ne cherche pas à faire « joli » à tout prix. Aux confins de l’ombre et de la lumière, entre des réalités parfois crues et des réflexions existentielles, MC June joue...
- Author:Campbell, ChadSummary:
Beginning with the arrival of the Campbell clan in Canada in 1827— “pale Scot farmers fording the river, / seated backwards in refusal”—Laws & Locks tracks the history of one family’s struggle with depression, madness and mental...
- Author:Colistro, VincentSummary:
“I was only born into the world,” begins one of Vincent Colistro’s poems, “didn’t invade it, didn’t ransom it for a nicer one.” Late Victorians, Colistro’s debut, is a beguilingly irreverent investigation of the life he was “born into...
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Author:Porter, PamelaSummary:This stunning collection will break your heart and put it back together again, as Pamela Porter unravels a long-held family secret in a moving personal search for redemption, face to face with the question of her own identity. As she...
- Author:Paré, ArleenSummary:
A hymn to a beloved lake, a praise poem in forty-five parts, a contemplation of landscape and memory. Lake of Two Mountains, Arleen Paré's second poetry collection, is a portrait of a lake, of a relationship to a lake, of a...
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Author:Smith, Douglas BurnetSummary:In his fifth book of poetry, Douglas Burnet Smith tunes his eye and ear closely to the world, conscious of those points where the everyday blossoms into fierce magic. The title sequence is a deftly-rendered homage to the work of Georgia...
- Author:Marquis, AndréSummary:
À la surface agitée des eaux, un voilier navigue sur une mer plutôt calme. Contradiction ? Tout dépend du sens que l’ on accorde à « agité ». L’ agitation dont il est question dans les suites qui ouvrent et ferment le recueil témoigne...
- Author:Audet, MartineSummary:
Suie, pleurs, étoiles, neiges et quelques floraisons, le poème n'est-il pas, comme les cendres, ce que l'on recueille avant la dispersion? Et le geste, le souffle du poète, celui d'un laveur/laveuse de cendres? Dans un enchaînement de...
- Author:Pleau, MichelSummary:
La lenteur du monde est un livre de l’aube. Une autre journée se lève sur le monde et voilà que le regard, toujours au début de chaque chose, se fait attentif à tout ce qui commence. Ce recueil est une plongée dans l’enfance, les...
- Author:Major, AliceSummary:
What portents must you divine when a knife falls from the sky into your snow-covered yard? From the bitumen hills of Fort McMurray to the barren reaches of Iceland, Knife on Snow depicts an earth bathed in dragon’s breath, where like...
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Author:Dickinson, AdamSummary:Shortlisted for the 2007 Trillium Book Award for Poetry
Ecologically aware poems, hardwired to the intellect and the heart in equal measure.
Adam Dickinson’s poems, with firm intellectual bite and imaginative scope, reach...
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Author:Hall, PhilSummary:WINNER OF THE 75th GOVERNOR GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARD FOR POETRYWINNER OF THE 25th TRILLIUM BOOK PRIZEWINNER OF AN ALCUIN AWARD FOR DESIGNSHORTLISTED FOR THE GRIFFIN POETRY PRIZEThese are poems of critical thought that have been...
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Author:Trainor, KimSummary:A remarkable debut that expresses a humanism grounded in physiology.
At the heart of Karyotype is the Beauty of Loulan, a woman who lived four thousand years ago, her body preserved in the cool, dry sands of the...
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Author:Hutchinson, ChrisSummary:Jonas in Frames is [choose one]: A) a series of loosely connected narrative fragments written in poetic prose; B) a maze of postcard stories bursting with literary in-jokes; C) a delicate sequence of prose poems interspersed with...
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Author:Sherman, KennethSummary:A poetic masterclass from a writer at the height of his craft Kenneth Sherman's work has always displayed a vibrant lyricism, so it's no surprise that his powerful new collection contains a number of poems with musical motifs. In such...
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