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  • Author:
    Friesen, Patrick
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    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:
    Bolster, Stephanie
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    Shortlisted for the 2012 Pat Lowther Memorial Award

    An ambivalent zoo-tour, an open-eyed meander through a landscape of made and contained things. 

    A Page from The Wonders of Life on Earth is a book with a...

  • Author:
    Harris, Maureen
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    Maureen Harris’s first volume of poetry evokes “a possible landscape,” where the stories that subtly shape us blend with the moments that we are. Here is an Eden where Eve longs for the serpent’s “green quiver,” his “sibilant caress,”...

  • Author:
    Itani, Frances
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    Frances Itani’s third book of poetry consists of two deeply moving elegiac sequences commemorating the deaths of a sister and friend. In chaste and determinedly unsentimental language, Itani takes us through the crises all must face,...

  • Author:
    Gernes, Ulrikka S., Friesen, Patrick
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    A Sudden Sky is a book of northern poems with crystalline images and lines, fragile graceful poems that speak of fragments, of the moment between open and closed eyes, of the human need for embrace. These poems note the spaces...

  • Author:
    Cook, Méira
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    Shortlisted for the 2012 Aqua Lansdowne Prize for Poetry

    A fascinating, ambling, loitering mystery story in verse, a whoizzit rather than a whodunit.

    In this innovative and arresting narrative poem, Méira Cook’s walker, a...

  • Author:
    Browne, Colin
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    In these passionate poems, this long poem, there is a story (there are stories) which a reader mines out of a landscape of language moulded under great pressure and eloquent of the stresses that formed it. This is non-representational...

  • Author:
    Robertson, William
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    At the time of writing this book, William Robertson was a homemaker. His poems bring a new passion to the ancient domestic scene, and to everything else he looks at out of that often-turbulent centre. He ventures with care "into a...

  • Author:
    Reibetanz, John
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    A masterful poet extends his range, bringing both his agile intelligence and musical acuity into play.

    Afloat, John Reibetanz’s eighth collection of poetry, focuses on water in many manifestations. The centerpiece, a...

  • Author:
    Di Nardo, Antony
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    These astute, generous poems give us contemporary Beirut in all its ravaged and incongruent beauty.

    This arresting first collection is, in part, a delicately balanced look at Beirut from the perspective of a Westerner who lives...

  • Author:
    Charlton, Brian
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    A pinball wizard stars in this urban romance, set where the blues meet jazz in London, Ontario's historic York Hotel.

  • Author:
    Humphreys, Helen
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    Winner of the 2000 Canadian Authors Association Award for Poetry and shortlisted for the 2000 Pat Lowther Award and the 2001 Milton Acorn Memorial People’s Poetry Prize

    Physical and fiercely lyric, Helen Humphreys' Anthem...

  • Author:
    Anderson, Mia
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    Verve, energy, wit, piquance and pure linguistic excitement: Mia Anderson's poetry is a whole cookbook of poetic experiences. Anderson is always ready to take big risks, and her work shows her love of life in its manyness and accident,...

  • Author:
    Steadman, Dean
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    Shortlisted for the 2017 Archibald Lampman Award and the Raymond Souster Award

    Poems that echo Satie’s haunting music and refract the ironies of the Parisian Dada movement

    A man who might be Erik Satie floats, à la...

  • Author:
    Kenyon, Michael
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    An award-winning writer conjures the Muse and the “noble gases” in this elemental and incandescent new collection.

    Astatine is an Italian girl, who like Dante’s Beatrice, haunts the narrator of Michael Kenyon’s incandescent...

  • Author:
    Roberts, Clea
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    Poems like single larches, each in an immense white plain—spare
    and clean, their exactness startling and arresting

    Whether speaking of erotic love, domestic life, spiritual wilderness, or family entanglements, the poems of...

  • Author:
    Kerr, Don
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    Shortlisted for the 1998 Saskatchewan Book Award for Poetry

    Don Kerr's fifth poetry collection is a verbal joyride, an exuberant celebration of a book: a celebration of mountains and plains, of growing up and of being young, of...

  • Author:
    Batchelor, Rhonda
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    The poems in Bearings are arranged in the stressful rhythm of alternation between the intense states of being in love and/or with someone or being alone. Loss refines the vision. For Rhonda Batchelor's poetry that means a gain...

  • Author:
    McGiffin, Emily
    Summary:

    Shortlisted for the Raymond Souster Award and the CAA Award for Poetry 2013

    Poems with an urgent desire to discover a way to be in right relation
    to other creatures and to the earth itself.

    There are many journeys...

  • Author:
    Domanski, Don
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    Winner of the J.M. Abraham Poetry Award at the East Coast Literary Awards and
    Finalist for the 2013 Governor General’s Award for Poetry

    From a master poet, meditative lines running like veins through the dark grace of...

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