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  • Dark water songs
    Author:
    Soutar-Hynes, Mary Lou
    Summary:

    The poems in Dark Water Songs begin on the margins of islands and ancestors, and fan out, probing love, loss and life’s dilemmas. They expand and deepen the poetic exploration which began with her earlier collections, mining...
  • Dancing on a pin
    Author:
    Fretwell, Katerina Vaughan
    Summary:

    Dancing on a Pin is Katerina Fretwell’s eighth poetry, and art, collection. Honest, stark, brave, and at times a humorous evoking of feelings and ideas, this collection of evocative poems is focused on the poet’s husband's...
  • Cut-up Apologetic
    Author:
    Sharpe, Jamie
    Summary:

    Up-and-coming poet Jamie Sharpe presents a finely tuned second collection

    Cut-up Apologetic, Sharpe’s second collection, explores aging in a world where youth is terrible and something we desperately want back....
  • Culverts : beneath the narrow road
    Author:
    Schmidt, Brenda
    Summary:

    Insightful and often humourous, Culverts Beneath the Narrow Road takes us on a journey of connecting people and nature through the unassuming culvert.
  • Cries from the ark
    Author:
    MacIsaac, Dan
    Summary:

    A pitch-perfect debutand a call to act in the service of Earth through radiant attention. Humankind, at present, has breached floodgates that have only been breached before in ancient stories of angry gods, or so far back on geologic...
  • Creeland
    Author:
    Hunt, Dallas
    Summary:

    Creeland is a poetry collection concerned with notions of home and the quotidian attachments we feel to those notions, even across great distances. Even in an area such as Treaty Eight (northern Alberta), a geography decimated by...
  • Could Be
    Author:
    Cadsby, Heather
    Summary:

    Poems about the unexpected and often wry coincidences language lends to life.

    In Could be, each poem is a moment of engaged and isolated attention, prodding language, relationships, the mundane aspects of daily life,...
  • Common brown house moths : poems
    Author:
    Zacharin, Laura
    Summary:

    In Common Brown House Moths, poems step back from the hurry, blur and ordinariness to take a closer look at the the hazards of daily life. From her work as a doctor and everyday family life, first time author, Laura Zacharin considers...
  • Collecting silence
    Author:
    Narwani, Ulrike
    Summary:

    The poems in Collecting Silence arc through youth, love and loss, to maturation, aging, peace. Wide travels throughout Asia, Europe and North America bring Narwani face to face with the oppressions of poverty, caste and religion, as...
  • Collected poems of Alden Nowlan
    Author:
    Nowlan, Alden, Bartlett, Brian
    Summary:

    Alden Nowlan (1933-1983) once wrote of a desire to leave behind "one poem, one story / that will tell what it was like / to be alive." In an abundance of memorable poems, he fulfilled this desire with candour and subtlety, emotion, and...
  • Closer to Home
    Author:
    Wynand, Derk
    Summary:

    These flies on a white table burst
    into shafts of light and touch down
    again, sun-stricken,
    the oil of their bodies breaking
    light into all its parts.

    Not yet song, their buzzing proves
    less...
  • Clinic Day
    Author:
    Bryden, Diana Fitzgerald
    Summary:

    The early car’s mine.
    I leave before the day
    puts hardware on;
    ride east all the way.

    I leave before the day
    abandons slow calm.
    Ride east all the way,
    and now a storm

    abandons...
  • Civil and civic
    Author:
    Bennett, Jonathan
    Summary:

    “As accomplished as Jonathan Bennett is at using language, he’s never fussy or precious about it. With his exacting, contemporary voice, part colourful reporter, part reluctant witness, his lines gain their effect by serving experience...
  • Childhood thoughts and water
    Author:
    McDonald, John
    Summary:

    “Childhood Thoughts and Water" is a collection of Beat Poetry, Spoken Word, Performance Art and Lyrical Verse. This is a work which journeys into the memories and events of an Urban Indigenous warrior’s struggles to reconnect with...
  • Ce bruit de disparition
    Author:
    Morency, Joanne
    Summary:

    Cette lumière dans la paume, on ne l’espérait plus. Ces couleurs qui s’étirent sans se perdre. Toutes choses qui, soudain, semblent se connaître entre elles. Une oie blanche sur fond blanc... Et l’on retrouve ses premiers battements de...
  • Cathedral
    Author:
    Porter, Pamela
    Summary:

    This collection of poems takes us on a journey — a very personal journey of Pamela Porter's own — to Africa and South America, those corners of the world the news reports never seem to cover: to Angola's thirty-year-long civil war, a...
  • Cartography and Walking
    Author:
    Dickinson, Adam
    Summary:

    Shortlisted for the 2003 Henry Kreisel Award for Best First Book (Writers Guild of Alberta Award)

    Without you,
    I have taken to drawing maps
    on the backs of photographs.
    On the coast in a raincoat
    your...
  • Career limiting moves : interviews, rejoinders, essays, reviews
    Author:
    Wells, Zachariah
    Summary:

    By turns celebratory and sceptical, Career Limiting Moves is a selection of essays and reviews drawn from a decade of immersion in Canadian poetry. Inhabiting a milieu in which unfriendly remarks are typically spoken sotto voce - if at...
  • Careen
    Author:
    Smart, Carolyn
    Summary:

    Second place winner in the 3rd Annual Fred Cogswell Award for Excellence in Poetry (2016)

    Remember Bonnie & Clyde?

    A complex, dramatic rendering of a familiar story made new.

    Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow are...
  • Building a nest from the bones of my people
    Author:
    Morgan, Cara-Lyn
    Summary:

    Motherhood, trauma, and familial history are woven together into a powerful collection from the award-winning author of What Became My Grieving Ceremony. Beginning with a revelation of familial sexual abuse, Building a Nest from the...

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