Intimate, nostalgic, and surprising, the poems in I Can Hear You, Can You Hear Me? spark connections that alter trajectory and carry lasting resonance. Encounters across phone lines, over drinks, through walkie-talkies, and unspoken...
Canadian poetry
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Author:Nolan NatashaSummary: - Author:Blythe, AliSummary:
In "Hymnswitch", Blythe takes up the themes of identity and the body once again, casting an eye backwards and forwards, visiting places of recovery and wrestling with the transition into one's own skin. Readers will find themselves...
- Author:Barton, JohnSummary:
Nominated for Gay Poetry (2009 Lambda Literary Awards). A journey in search of love through the contemporary homoerotic male body. Improvising on a variety of poetic forms and traversing disparate landscapes - from Belfast to the clear-...
- Author:Bruck, JulieSummary:
How to Avoid Huge Ships, Julie Bruck's fourth collection of poetry, is a book of arguments and spells against the ambushes of time. Parents grow down, children up, and it's from the uncomfortable in-between that these poems...
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Author:Howe, KenSummary:Winner of the 2001 Anne Szumigalski Award for Poetry and shortlisted for the 2001 Regina Book Award (Saskatchewan Book Awards). Shortlisted for the 2002 Gerald Lampert Award and longlisted for the 2002 ReLit Awards.
from “Max’s...
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Author:Krause, JudithSummary:Homage to Happiness, by Judith Krause of Regina, and Saskatchewan's newly appointed Poet Laureate writes in a subtle, yet rich, lyric architecture in these poems that house past loves, present loves, memory, and the favorite rooms of...
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Author:Capilongo, DomenicoSummary:Hold the Note is a wide-ranging collection unified by a jazzy, syncopated writing style — dynamic, sometimes experimental, often playful, yet always passionately engaged, sensual and visceral. Themes include the author''s Italo-Canadian...
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Author:Lee, John B.Summary:Shortlisted for the 1987 Milton Acorn Memorial People’s Poetry Prize
The hired hand of these poems was a stupid man. Nowadays he would be known as one of the employable retarded. Tom was lucky enough to find work and a home with...
- Author:Roberts, CleaSummary:
With her remarkable debut collection, Yukon poet Clea Roberts proffers a perceptive & ecological reading of the Canadian North's past & present. Roberts deftly draws out the moments that comprise a cycle of seasons, paying...
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Author:Islam, Doyali FarahSummary:From Toronto-based poet and editor Doyali Islam comes an intimate, luminous collection of poems that investigate the ruptures in our relationships. How does one inhabit a world in which the moon and the drone hang in the same sky? How...
- Author:Sinclair, SueSummary:
Heaven's Thieves is a collection engaged with the big questions? What are bodies for? What does it mean to be alive? What is beauty and why does it have such power over us? What is the point of art? - and the urgent ones: how to...
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Author:Norman, Renee, Leggo, CarlSummary:This collection of both narrative and lyrical poetry moves between two strong voices that resonate with and against one another, a woman and a man, focusing on family relationships in all their intersections and differences. The poems...
- Author:Ferguson, JesseSummary:
Jesse Patrick Ferguson brings music and poetry into conversation with each other in this compelling debut collection. Modelled on the fundamental tones and overtones of the harmonic series, poems in Ferguson's arrangement riff on...
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Author:Bennett, JonathanSummary:“Bennett’s artistry lies in his ability to create poems that shatter complacency with bricks of loaded language.” — Quill & Quire on Civil and Civic
“How are you doing, happinesswise?” This is the unifying...
- Author:Unrau, Melanie DennisSummary:
Happiness Threads: The Unborn Poems, Melanie Dennis Unrau’s debut collection is an elegantly spare, thoughtful, and fiercely tenacious meditation on the trials and tribulations of modern motherhood. Written in response to the platitude...
- Author:Ondaatje, MichaelSummary:
Ondaatje's new collection of poetry explores themes of love, landscape, and the sweep of history set in the poet's first home, Sri Lanka. 1998.
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Author:Arnott, JoanneSummary:In Halfling spring, a series of notes unfolds the dance of desire versus trust through a long season of actual and metaphorical springtime. Joanne Arnott is a Metis/mixed blood mother of six, and in this collection she continues her...
- Author:Oliver, AlexandraSummary:
Hail, The Invisible Watchman is haunted poetry--Oliver's formal schemes are as tidy as a picket-fence and as suggestive; behind the charm of rhyme is a vibrant, dark exploration of domestic and social alienation. The poems in Hail...
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Author:McFadzean, CassidySummary:With settings ranging from the ancient sites and lavish museums of Europe to the inner-city neighbourhood in North Central Regina where the poet grew up, the poems in Cassidy McFadzean’s startling first collection embrace myth and...
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Author:Wheeler, SueSummary:In her third collection of poems, Sue Wheeler writes of the ephemeral with an eye trained on the eternal questions. “Who are you?” she asks at the outset of her search for fresh and more telling names for the human in the lush natural...
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