Le « toujours merveilleux poète Alexis Lefrançois », comme le présentait récemment Hugues Corriveau dans Le Devoir, nous lance une invitation avec son recueil : Je vous rejoindrai au teminus vide. Alexis Lefrançois décrit l’éphémère...
Canadian poetry
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Author:Lefrançois, Alexis, St-Pierre, DenisSummary: - Author:Deerchild, RosannaSummary:
-nitotamahk k sik is a poetry collection in Cree that describes deep personal experiences and post-generational effects of the Canadian Aboriginal residential school confinements in the 1960's when thousands of First Nations, M tis...
- Author:Merasty, FrancineSummary:
Iskotew Iskwew: Poetry of a Northern Rez Girl is a poetry collection written during a period of trauma while the author was working as a statement taker and Counsel to the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and...
- Author:Smith, CristalleSummary:
Invisible Lives chronicles cycles of dysfunction and domestic violence. Using experimental hybrid poetry, Cristalle Smith breaks generational silence in lyric resonance, reflecting on a childhood rife with upheaval and poverty, the...
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Author:Dempster, BarrySummary:Virtuosic poems tracking two intertwined themes: the breakdown of an obsessive love affair and the vicissitudes of middle age.
Invisible Dogs, Dempster’s fourteenth collection, is a complex but deeply coherent hymn to...
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Author:Bread, Pain NotSummary:Introduction to the Introduction to the Introduction by André Alexis
For me, reading the Introduction was like being caught in a spring shower while waiting for the 41, and running into a library to get out of the rain...
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Author:Whiteman, BruceSummary:Intimate Letters comprises the seventh book of an ongoing long poem in prose called The Invisible World Is in Decline. Its title borrows from a string quartet by Leoš Jánaček, a profoundly emotional piece written late...
- Author:MacLeod, HeatherSummary:
Intermission is an uncommon and refreshing excavation of popular culture, memory, and relationship. It offers startling interpretations of the fashionable sitcoms and young-adult novels which were prevalent during the late 1970s while...
- Author:Solway, DavidSummary:
Installations, David Solway’s 14th book of poetry, is haunted with transformation, Few poets possess as commanding a gift for metaphor or can use it to masterfully conjure the ever-changing landscape of the natural world. Like the jerry...
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Author:Hartog, DianaSummary:“… like Emily Dickinson, Hartog melds the ordinary with the visionary….” — Joseph Stroud, author of Below Cold Mountain and Country of Light
Ink Monkey is Diana Hartog’s first book of poetry in more...
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Author:Howard, LizSummary:A stunning debut book of poems from a bold new voice unafraid to engage with the exigencies of our contemporary world. In Liz Howard’s wild, scintillating debut, the mechanisms we use to make sense of our worlds – even our direct...
- Author:Bishop, JoeSummary:
Indie Rock candidly focuses on a queer poet/musician's life in Newfoundland and his personal struggles with addiction, OCD, and trauma. This intelligent and punchy collection is steeped in musicality and the geographies and...
- Author:Stallworthy, BobSummary:
Impact Statement is a book of transitions.Transitions that are brought about by a catastrophic health situation. Transitions in life brought on by facing the potential for death and dying to happen at any time; being desperate enough to...
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Author:D'Agostino, SaroSummary:Immigrant Songs is a posthumous collection of the works of Saro (Rosario) D’Agostino. It includes poems, fiction works that may be chapters of an unfinished novel, and letters. These fragments from a seminal Italo-Canadian writer whose...
- Author:Simić, GoranSummary:
Immigrant Blues, an extension and deepening of the famous poems of the siege of Sarajevo translated in Simic's Sprinting from the Graveyard (Oxford, 1997), explores the personal and the public devastations of war, especially its...
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Author:Shaffran, RonSummary:Speaking a language we understand, Rona Shaffran's poems tell the story of remarkable things that can happen in a broken relationship. These poems inhabit the sharp edges and rich depths of a union too long untended. Ignite begins...
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Author:Elmslie, SusanSummary:Winner of the 2006 A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry and shortlisted for the McAuslan First Book Prize (Quebec Writers’ Federation).
Shortlisted for the 2007 Pat Lowther Award and the 2007 ReLit Awards.Poems that reach towards...
- Author:Zits, PaulSummary:
An intimate poetic interrogation of restrictive masculinity from award-winning author Paul Zits. He has outlived his usefulness. He is stressed, over-produced, and in crisis. He is searching for a role in modern society. So he is...
- Author:Bissett, Bill, Acorn, MiltonSummary:
Published in its intended form for the first time, I Want to Tell You Love is a remarkable collaboration from bill bissett and Milton Acorn that captures the spirit of the sixties. bill bissett and Milton Acorn are two of Canada's most...
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Author:Gould, NoraSummary:Winner of the 2013 Robert Kroetsch Edmonton Book Prize
and the Stephan G. Stephansson Award for Poetry (Writers Guild of Alberta)Shortlisted for Gerald Lampert Memorial Award
and a finalist for the High Plains Book...
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