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  • Quick: Aphorisms
    Author:
    Murray, George
    Summary:

    The highly anticipated follow-up to the wildly popular Glimpse

    Quick is George Murray’s second collection of aphorisms — a form that straddles the lines between poetry, philosophy, humour, and prose. He...
  • Put your hand in mine
    Author:
    Woo, Elaine
    Summary:

    This is a book of the inner sea. Language, concept, and form alternate holding the depths. That broken diamond of sun on rough waters: she speaks egalitarian. That cool glass of viridian water just within reach of the surface: water...
  • Pure product
    Author:
    Guriel, Jason
    Summary:

    In his second book of poems, Jason Guriel cuts a dazzling figurewhip-smart, charismatic, with a mischievousness always eager to play for more serious stakes. Guriels way of seeing the world is low-key and sly: he tries to show us the...
  • Psychic geographies and other topics
    Author:
    Betts, Gregory
    Summary:

    Psychic Geographies is a tour de force, an ambitious exploration of the age, its physical and emotional permutations, its tragic contradictions, its joyful transformations. Gregory Betts takes a construct from the Situationists of the...
  • Practical anxiety
    Author:
    Greco, Heidi
    Summary:

    These poems dwell in the hearth of domesticity, but they look beyond the confines of the home with clear eyes. Boldly unafraid, they confront the realities of climate change, the desecration of habitat, some quiet truths about aging and...
  • Post-glacial : The Poetry of Robert Kroetsch
    Author:
    Kroetsch, Robert, Eso, David, van Herk, Aritha
    Summary:

    Post-glacial is a collection of poems by Robert Kroetsch selected by his former student David Eso. The book features Kroetsch's iconic collection, Completed Field Notes, alongside rare work gathered from different stages of...
  • Poems for a new world
    Author:
    Fife, Connie
    Summary:

    Connie Fife is one of Canada’s warrior poets. Poems for a New World, her third book of poems, refuses to take prisoners. She writes of Oka and Gustafson Lake, of the police shooting of a Native mother and child, as well as the NATO...
  • Poèmes 1938-1984
    Author:
    Smart, Elizabeth
    Summary:

    «Poèmes 1938-1984» se compose de quatre parties et rassemble plusieurs décennies d’un travail poétique acharné qui témoigne de l’infatigable vigueur d’une femme dévouée à sa muse. Ayant lutté sa vie entière pour réconcilier les...
  • Pluviophile : poems
    Author:
    Saadi, Yusuf
    Summary:

    Pluviophile veers through various poetic visions and traditions in search of the sacred within and beyond language. Its poems continually revitalize form, imagery and sonancy to reconsider the ways we value language, beauty and body....
  • Phantompains
    Author:
    Estacion, Therese
    Summary:

    Phantompains is a visceral, imaginative collection exploring disability, grief and life by interweaving stark memories with magic surrealism. Taking inspiration from Filipino horror and folk tales, Estacion incorporates some Visayan...
  • Personals : poems
    Author:
    Williams, Ian
    Summary:

    These are not love poems. These are almost-love poems. Jittery, plaintive, and fresh, these are poems voiced through a startling variety of speakers who continually rev themselves up to the challenge of connecting with others, often to...
  • Penny dreadful
    Author:
    Stewart, Shannon
    Summary:

    Penny Dreadfuls were popular, cheaply produced 19th century magazines filled with brutal and sensationalist tales. In her uncompromising second collection of poetry, Vancouver poet Shannon Stewart revisits their grisly spirit through a...
  • Pebble swing
    Author:
    Wang, Isabella
    Summary:

    A much-anticipated debut collection from one of Canada's most promising emerging poets Pebble Swing earns its title from the image of stones skipping their way across a body of water, or, in the author's case, syllables and traces of...
  • Pale as real ladies : poems for Pauline Johnson
    Author:
    Crate, Joan
    Summary:

    In powerful language that reflects the conflicts between the primitive and the sophisticated, Joan Crate redreams the passions which animated and tormented her famous predecessor. Part white, part Mohawk princess, Pauline Johnson/...
  • Outskirts
    Author:
    Goyette, Sue
    Summary:

    Winner of the 2012 Pat Lowther Memorial Award. Winner of the 2012 Atlantic Poetry Prize. Sue Goyette's outskirts is a tour de force. Its originality lies in Goyette's refusal of despair, her conviction that the connections...
  • Our gleaming bones unrobed
    Author:
    Loveys, Grant
    Summary:

    A first collection of poems from the winner of the Cuffer Prize for short fiction. Our Gleaming Bones Unrobed is a haunting debut, a poetry collection thematically focused on discovering the structure (the figurative bones)...
  • Otolith
    Author:
    Nilsen, Emily
    Summary:

    Otolith — the ear stone — is a series of bones that help us to orient ourselves in space. In Otolith, Emily Nilsen attempts a similar feat in poetry: to turn the reader's attention to their relationship to the world, revealing an...
  • Other People's Lives The History of a London Lot
    Author:
    Hutchinson, Chris
    Summary:

    Longlisted for the 2010 ReLit Award

    Exciting music, delicious ironies, radiant self-awareness.

    With imagination, wit and scrupulous candour, Chris Hutchinson’s poems negotiate and renegotiate the shifting no-man’s-land...
  • Other Houses
    Author:
    Cayley, Kate
    Summary:

    From acclaimed fiction writer and playwright Kate Cayley—
    poems that illuminate the deep strangeness of the familiar

    In Other Houses, Kate Cayley’s second collection of poetry, objects are alive with the presence...
  • Ossuaires
    Author:
    Brand, Dionne
    Summary:

    Le travail de Dionne Brand a toujours été « un creuset de lyrisme incantatoire et de cinglante critique sociale » (Barbara Carey). En effet, couvrant à la fois l’intime et le collectif, Ossuaires opère un désancrage des mots  : délestés...

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