A meditation on the wiles of depression, illuminated by queer and diasporic experience.
Poetry
- Author:Dawson, NicholasSummary:
- Author:Porter, PamelaSummary:
In this breathtaking collection of poems, Pamela Porter invokes the twin mysteries of love and loss to illumine the heart burdened by grief, yet comforted and renewed by the beauty of the natural world. In the long poem “Atonement,”...
- Author:Young, DeannaSummary:
Finalist for the 2015 Trillium Book Award for Poetry, the Archibald
Lampman Award, City of Ottawa Book Awards and the ReLit AwardA book of dark corners and shifting locations, full of switches that light up
the... - Author:Benaway, GwenSummary:
In her third collection of poetry, Holy Wild, Gwen Benaway explores the complexities of being an Indigenous trans woman in expansive lyric poems. She holds up the Indigenous trans body as a site of struggle, liberation, and beauty. A...
- Author:Hill, GeraldSummary:
In his new poetry collection, Gerald Hill invites you to take a cruise down the streets of Hillsdale, learn about its architecture, rehearse its schoolyard taunts and sample its denizens' favourite drink recipes. Fusing history,...
- Author:Perkins, Useni EugeneSummary:
Six-time Coretta Scott King Award winner and four-time Caldecott Honor recipient Bryan Collier brings this classic, inspirational poem to life, written by poet Useni Eugene Perkins Hey black child, Do you know who you are? Who really...
- Author:Shapero, NatalieSummary:
Shapero writes in an urgent vernacular that flirts, stings, implores and demands with apparent abandon."--Houston Chronicle "Shapero's poetics has real-world import for the way we use language to talk about messy things."-Volta Thought-...
- Author:Oliver, AlexandraSummary:
Hail, The Invisible Watchman is haunted poetry--Oliver's formal schemes are as tidy as a picket-fence and as suggestive; behind the charm of rhyme is a vibrant, dark exploration of domestic and social alienation. The poems in Hail...
- Author:CHOPRA, DeepakSummary:
Human ageing is reversible. Scientific research shows that we can literally turn back the markers of getting old, including blood pressure, muscle strength, cholesterol levels and many others. Using the tools in this book, you can learn...
- Author:Cowper, DanielSummary:
Afraid to be alone / we met by lamplight, trading stories: // Sin of Man was one, // Age of Science, another. More // prayers than answers. Daniel Cowper's debut poetry collection, Grotesque Tenderness, speaks for an unrooted age,...
- Author:Actis, AndreaSummary:
'Please stay with me, please stay here, please cause poltergeists in my stupid apartment...' Late in the evening of December 13, 2007, Andrea Actis found her father, Jeff, facedown dead in her East Vancouver apartment. So...
- Author:Caldwell, ClaireSummary:
Poetry that explores what it means to be a woman—a settler woman—in the wilderness.
- Author:Noyes, SteveSummary:
“In a sober and carefully understated voice I say: this is a damn good poet.” Al Purdy on Backing into Heaven
Ghost Country enters the difficult electric air between cultures and lovers, alive to the fierce...
- Author:Rowe, StephenSummary:
Stephen Rowe’s geo•logics—his highly anticipated follow-up to Never More There—binds the impermanent to the permanent. With sustained inquiries into loss and reason, Rowe seeks a motivation capable of accepting pain, and reveals the...
- Author:Toone, JohnSummary:
From Out of Nowhere explores how cities have changed the landscape for prairie poetry. The poems find the intersections where nature speaks through cowboys, hunters, fishers, farmers, and businessmen. These voices are captured in...
- Author:Pipar, RosetteSummary:
Fragments II est la suite du premier recueil de poèmes Fragments I. Il a pour principale l’écrit, personnifiant la vie intérieure qui vibre en duo. Il se fait l’écho de la voie profonde captant le souffle brut qui quête sa parcelle d’...
- Author:Pipar, RosetteSummary:
Comme autant de mémoires surgissant de chaque instant, les mots se fragmentent et forment le kaléidoscope de la Vie. Un regard, une émotion, un souvenir ravivent l'impression forte nichée au fond de l'âme attendant l'heure d'imbiber le...
- Author:Crate, JoanSummary:
Foreign Homes, Joan Crate's second book of poems, explores domesticity and dislocation, where what was thought to be home becomes alien, and where the alien is, piece by piece, made into home -- often in such simple, physical acts...
- Author:Paré, ArleenSummary:
Governor General's Award-winning poet Arleen Paré combines the story of two first best friends with questions of the mystery of cosmic first cause. The poems in First, Arleen Paré's seventh collection, search for a long-lost...
- Author:Lavoie, Daniel, Therrien, Joanne, Le Gall, HuguetteSummary:
La fi nutilité m’habite…Pourquoi ceci me diras-tu?Pour la poésie du futile, la beauté de l’éphémère…Pour la beauté infi nie de la tristesse.Pour moi pour toi qui sommes à la fois rien,à la fois tout.