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...
Canadian poetry
- Author:Faber, AlydaSummary:
- Author:Czaga, KaylaSummary:
In the title poem of award-winning poet Kayla Czaga's sophomore collection, the speaker is suspended between knowledge and experience - hovering there confidently before the world plunges her into the frigid waters of adult life. Czaga...
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- Author:Bradford, DavidSummary:
An expansive, hybrid, debut collection of prose poems, self-erasures, verse, and family photo cut-ups about growing up in a racially trinary, diversely troubled family. Dream of No One but Myself is an interdisciplinary, lyrical...
- Author:Vermeersch, PaulSummary:
Don’t Let It End Like This Tell Them I Said Something — Paul Vermeersch’s fifth collection of poetry — is, as its title suggests, a lyrical meditation on written language and the end of civilization. It combines centos, glosas...
- Author:Donlan, JohnSummary:
A sequence of fifty dated poems, four quatrains each; lyrical arguments; quick thinking amid the rational absurdity of everyday machinery; intuitive explorations of unknown energies; a diary of the unconscious.
- Author:Johnstone, JimSummary:
Like the “page turned down to make another / page,” Dog Ear explores the marks we leave on a world whose social and political markers are constantly shifting. In his fourth book of poems—and most powerful work to date—Jim Johnstone...
- Author:Murray, GeorgeSummary:
New poems from one of Canada’s best-known poets
Where most poetry seeks contemplative quiet, as in Wordsworth’s “emotion recollected in tranquility,” Diversion asks: What happens to poetry if...
- Author:Dempster, BarrySummary:
Shortlisted for the 2017 Raymond Souster Award
A beloved poet explores why life is so rich, even at the worst of times.
Disturbing the Buddha, Barry Dempster’s fifteenth collection, is disarmingly conversational...
- Author:Twist, ArielleSummary:
In her powerful debut collection of poetry, Arielle Twist unravels the complexities of human relationships after death and metamorphosis. In these spare yet powerful poems, she explores, with both rage and tenderness, the parameters of...
- Author:Margoshes, DaveSummary:
A collection of Dave Margoshes poetry.
- Author:Lockhart, D. A.Summary:
D.A. Lockhart's stunning and subversive fourth collection gives us the words, thoughts, and experiences of an Anishinaabe guy from Central Ontario and the manner in which he interacts with central aspects and icons of settler...
- Author:Braune, SeanSummary:
Text surrounds us. Text is everywhere, all the time, and the contemporary world is a codex to be deciphered and disassembled. In Dendrite Balconies, Sean Braune harvests the language that surrounds us-pieces and shards from other...
- Author:O'Grady, ThomasSummary:
War, Pestilence, Famine, Death. Was I deaf / to the headline roar of my unwieldy load? Engaging with the inevitability of change and flux, Thomas O'Grady's poems grapple with themes of death and rebirth, of loss and resiliency...
- Author:Bélanger, PaulSummary:
On nage dans les profondeurs des déblais, noyé, emmuré, enterré, suivant la lueur lointaine d'une vie sans blessure, une vie au-dessus et au-delà, une sorte de conjuration de la mort par l'appel des mots, des figures ouvrant au temps...
- Author:Atwood, MargaretSummary:
The collection of a lifetime from the bestselling novelist and poet. By turns moving, playful and wise, the poems gathered in Dearly are about absences and endings, ageing and retrospection, but also about gifts and renewals. They...
- Author:Gottfriedson, GarrySummary:
Follow Garry Gottfriedson in this new collection of combative poems as he compels us and Heaven to listen to the challenges facing First Nation communities today. Employing many of the Secwepemc (Shuswap) images and stories,...
- Author:Wynand, DerkSummary:
Dead Man’s Float details that sad emblem of Western alienation, the tourist couple in their rented tropical Eden. Here life is temporary and not at all cheap. The wildlife is spectacular, the culture incomprehensible, and the...
- Author:Sharpe, JamieSummary:
Poems that challenge the depths of perception
Dazzle camouflage, at the beginning of the 20th century, was an attempt to answer the question, How do we hide those things that are too big to hide? Ships, often...
- Author:Leifso, BrendaSummary:
Shortlisted for the 2009 Lampman-Scott Award (for the best book of poetry in the National Capital Region)
Vivid accessible poems revealing the mythic proportions of a seemingly simple, rural childhood and the passions that course...