Governor General's Award-winning poet Don Domanski's posthumous last collection once again melds perception-expanding environmental poetry and metaphysics into a seamless, moving lyric whole.
Canadian poetry
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Author:Domanski, DonSummary: -
Author:Tysdal, Daniel ScottSummary:In Fauxccasional Poems, Daniel Scott Tysdal imagines himself into poetic voices not his own, writing to commemorate events that never occurred, for the posterity of alternative universes — and the delight of our own. From the reign of...
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Author:Sorbie, AnneSummary:Falling Backwards Into Mirrorsis a book that merges poetry and memoir. At the same time, it is a collection grounded in the body, naked and spare, wounded and wonderful. Through vivid, sensual images that evoke feeling, the speaker...
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Author:Showler, SuzannahSummary:Poetry of ambivalence, humour, and doubt that belies a kind of optimism. Dumpster fires outside discount stores and rotting whale carcasses; optical illusions and memento mori--all 'coming to you direct, / by way of this Rube Goldberg...
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Author:Rees, RobertaSummary:Co-winner of the 1992 Gerald Lampert Award. Winner of the 1992 Writers Guild of Alberta Award for Poetry
Eyes Like Pigeons, Roberta Rees' long poem, comes back, always, to this: "… Thi' in Vietnamese means poetry." Thi,...
- Author:Cross-Blanchard, MollySummary:
Smart, raunchy poems that are sorry-not-sorry. Sticky, sad, and sultry, Exhibitionist is a merry-go-round circling back to the tender, awkward parts of ourselves. Molly Cross-Blanchard allows her poems to ask the reader out for ice...
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Author:Zits, PaulSummary:Margaret is unlike other women: her hands bark, she speaks Hawaiian Punch, and she can often be seen prodding at stars with sticks. And sometimes she is the happiest woman in the world: a pillow with a pillowcase. Her brother, Alex,...
- Author:Musgrave, SusanSummary:
A stunning new collection from a master poet celebrated for her singular voice. From the award-winning poet known for her bracing honesty and sharp yet compassionate gaze, here is a new collection of poems that explore life, marriage,...
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Author:Timmins, LeslieSummary:The capacity of the rediscovered world to signal and illuminate, restore and repair, fuels the poems in Every Shameless Ray. In Every Shameless Ray, it's more often possible to find one's way when headed somewhere else....
- Author:Shraya, VivekSummary:
Vivek Shraya's debut collection of poetry is a bold and timely interrogation of skin - its origins, functions, and limitations. Poems that range in style from starkly concrete to limber break down the barriers that prevent...
- Author:Dunning, NormaSummary:
“Eskimo Pie: A Poetics of Inuit Identity” examines Dunning’s lived history as an Inuk who was born, raised and continues to live south of sixty. Her writing takes into account the many assimilative practices that Inuit continue to face...
- Author:Pellissier-Lush, JulieSummary:
The highly anticipated debut poetry collection of Mi'kmaq poems by Prince Edward Island's Poet Laureate, Julie Pellisier-Lush. This collection will enthral poetry lovers. Skilled at taking words from hearts and minds to paper, Julie's...
- Author:Dowling, SarahSummary:
Driving along the Pacific Coast Highway, you come to a road sign: Entering Sappho. Nothing remains of the town, just trash at the side of the highway and thick, wet bush. Can Sappho's breathless eroticism tell us anything about...
- Author:Pacey, MichaelSummary:
In Electric Affinities, Michael Pacey's second collection, everyday household items become points of departure into wonder -- a handsaw becomes a “bird hooded, strung with jesses, strops with its beak.” A cup becomes “a tool for...
- Author:Avasilichioaei, OanaSummary:
Poet and intermedia artist Oana Avasilichioaei's Eight Track is a transliterary exploration of traces. Sound recordings, surveillance cameras, desert geoglyphs, drone operators, refugee interviews, animal imprints, and audio...
- Author:Epp, JoanneSummary:
Home is like “a memory of a lost photograph,” elusive but vivid. A place of tenuous security, “one claw on the screen” can threaten the entire structure. Joanne Epp, in her first collection of poetry, Eigenheim, shapes and reshapes the...
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Author:Conn, JanSummary:Mature poems with their finger on the pulse of the dark side of the present.
Reading Edge Effects, Jan Conn’s masterful eighth collection, is a little like looking at Edward Burtynsky’s photographs of real industrial...
- Author:Ritland, LauraSummary:
East and West, Laura Ritland's astonishing debut, is a book of visions. These are roving poems drawn to defamiliarizing points of view, and are exquisitely attentive to the way the world exceeds our senses ("Cloud deduced...
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Author:Almon, BertSummary:Winner of the 1995 Writers Guild of Alberta Award for Poetry
Bert Almon’s poems are centred in local, apparently unremarkable moments which are addressed with such a fine, ironic eye that they suddenly yield their innate comedy,...
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Author:Faber, AlydaSummary:Is this life a route or a destination? Alyda Faber's assured début examines the ties that bind us to one another and to the Earth we inhabit, and asks the question, What is left of us when we are gone? In the quiet and unsettling poems...
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