YYC POP is the legacy project by Calgary Poet Laureate, Sheri-D Wilson. A collection of poetry written by current and ex-pat Calgarians, the works contained in the collection celebrate ordinary and extraordinary Calgarians. She asked...
Poetry
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Author:Summary: - Author:Fitch, ShereeSummary:
You won't always be this sad, her mother, who also lost a son, reassures her, while a close friend encourages her to pick up the pen and write it all down. Capturing her own struggles as she emerges from shock in the wake of her son's...
- Author:Doctor, FarzanaSummary:
A moving collection of poetry about navigating mid-life, full of humour and wit, from acclaimed novelist Farzana Doctor. This debut poetry collection from acclaimed novelist Farzana Doctor is both an intimate deep dive and a humorous...
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Author:Flake, SharonSummary:Tow-Kaye just learned that the love of his life is pregnant--and though he knows what the right thing to do is, he's scared to death to do it. Jeffrey hates having a mom who dresses like a teenager, but when another sexy mom moves in...
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Author:Sumac, SmokiiSummary:A curated selection from hundreds of poems written over two years of a near-daily haiku practice. Sections of selected poems such as 'recovery,' 'courting,' and 'ceremony,' tell a story of what 2016-2018 was like in the life of a two-...
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Author:Gillis, SusanSummary:Inviting, human, capacious poems that grapple with ideas while also lightly grieving our capacity for ruin.
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Author:Henderson, BrianSummary:Year Zero is the time of hushed beginnings and endings, the place of naming and unnaming, where language, strange to itself, tiptoes along songlines as though following passages of Koto music. In Brian Henderson’s poetry,...
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Author:Roberts, KevinSummary:Speaking of Kevin Roberts, the Australian writer Nigel Krauth says, “Roberts takes the common man’s point of view and proves that humanity is still connected to the great turning of the universe.” Certainly this “New and Selected”...
- Author:Carson, EdwardSummary:
in the poem / of the world / there once / was a map / of the map / composed in / the likeness / of a poemIn this riddling and seeking book of poems, Edward Carson navigates the emotional, often contradictory intelligence of the heart...
- Author:Silverstein, ShelSummary:
A boy who turns into a TV set and a girl who eats a whale are only two of the characters we meet in this collection of humorous poetry.
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Author:Cayley, KateSummary:Poems that journey through a tapestry of myths, archetypes and fables; of histories invented and revisited.
Kate Cayley’s is a mind both studious and curious, deeply attuned to the question “what if?” What if Nick Drake and Emily...
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Author:Davis, DeganSummary:What does it mean to be a man now? These poems' answers are bold and deeply moving.
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Author:Ghaffar, AsherSummary:“In the age of increasing surveillance of borders, the border is where every thing significant occurs; map the border and you begin to understand the pulse of a nation,” Asher Ghaffar writes in the introduction to wasps in a golden...
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Author:Lane, PatrickSummary:Following the success of his award-winning memoir "There is a Season" (2004) and his bestselling novel "Red Dog, Red Dog" (2008), Patrick Lane felt his celebrated poetry career might be at an end and published his "Collected Poems" in...
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Author:Rodier, LouisSummary:Recueil de poésie vivant, de magnifique témoignage.
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Author:Pierce, E. AlexSummary:Poems of great passion and tenderness, as close to rapture as a writer can get and still hold on.
E. Alex Pierce’s voice can be heard echoing down the long corridors of memory and myth. It’s not that these poems live in the past...
- Author:Poliquin, LaurentSummary:
Le poème se marche la vie en poche. Volute velours offre sa monnaie d’échange amoureux à la beauté gravée dans les ruines de moments pléniers.
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Author:Wall, Kathleen, 1950-, Geminder, VeronicaSummary:Visible Cities prompts readers to reconsider their relationship to the landscapes of cities. Poems explore streets in cities all over the world, while the photographs find beauty in back lanes, observe people taking their coffee breaks...
- Author:Houle, JenniferSummary:
The title of Jennifer Houle’s second collection, Virga, refers to a cloud formation often seen on the horizon, when rain begins to fall but evaporates before reaching the ground, only to fall again when the time is right. Likewise, the...
- Author:Del Rey, LanaSummary:
THE HIGHLY ANTICIPATED SPOKEN WORD POETRY COLLECTION FROM LANA DEL REY, VIOLET BENT BACKWARDS OVER THE GRASS " Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass is the title poem of the book and the first poem I wrote of many. Some of which...
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