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Canadian poetry

  • Author:
    Braidek, Carla
    Summary:

    Traditional poetry continues to hold its place in contemporary literature, in part, because of the emergence of women whose writing is informed by tradition but whose subject matter crystalizes in the personal search for meaning. This...

  • Author:
    Grace, Lenea
    Summary:

    Lenea Grace’s debut collection maps a series of relationships within a greater exploration of Canadiana, barreling through shield and crag, river and slag. A Generous Latitude is not afraid of beer, bears, internal rhyme, David...

  • Author:
    Nock, Samantha
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    A Family of Dreamers is an exploration of the coming of age of a Métis woman who moved from her small rural town to the city. It investigates conversations around desirability, fat liberation, and being a young Indigenous woman. A...

  • Author:
    Margoshes, Dave
    Summary:

    Family, death, love, longing, retrospection: these are all of the themes Dave Margoshes touches on in his new poetry collection, and first in almost a decade. With careful attention to detail, and evocative turns of phrase, Margoshes...

  • Author:
    Friesen, Patrick
    Summary:

    Shortlisted for the 1997 Governor General’s Award for Poetry

    Set firmly at the end of the millennium, A Broken Bowl takes on the burden of history, with its heaped atrocities, its unimaginable sufferings. This long poem...

  • Author:
    Weston, Joanna M.
    Summary:

    The poems in this collection explore the life of the poet’s mother who divorced in 1939, at a time when a woman divorcing was still frowned upon by society. This collection draws a picture of the artist and single mother who struggled...

  • Author:
    Hill, Gerald
    Summary:

    In 14 Tractors, Gerald Hills latest poetry collection, tractors pull versions of story, poetic form, landscape, light, and family history into summer air, offering themselves as vehicles for looking and remembering. Accompanying Shelley...

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