Poetry. Poems that unfold like liturgy, confronting old violence with a trembling, dignified restraint. REUNION is a parable, an origin story, a cautionary tale. It is also a time machine in which poe
Poetry. Inviting, human, capacious poems that grapple with ideas while also lightly grieving our capacity for ruin. YELLOW CRANE, Susan Gillis's fourth collection of poetry, is a book of many views, m
Poetry. Both "grave and brave, serious and hilarious"--new poems from a Governor General's Award-winning poet. HOW TO AVOID HUGE SHIPS, Julie Bruck's fourth collection of poetry, is a book of argument
A long poem memorializing the art and lives of sculptors Frances Loring and Florence Wyle. Arleen Paré, in her first book-length poem after her Governor General Literary Award-winning Lake of Two Mou
A pitch-perfect debut and a call to act in the service of Earth through radiant attention. Humankind, at present, has breached floodgates that have only been breached before in ancient stories of ang
A meditative and piercing collection that explores traumas both ordinary and out of the ordinary. Museum of Kindness, Montreal poet Susan Elmslie's searching second collection of poetry, is a book t
In her third book of poetry The Perils of Geography, Helen Humphreys charts a world that opens under the prodding and promise of language. With the wit and eye for evocative detail which gained reader
The True Names of Birds is the first book-length collection from a voice that has captured the attention of Canadian poetry readers for the last half-dozen years. Deeply centred in domestic life, Goye
Instructions: An elimination dance begins with a crowded dance floor. At a signal, the band stops playing and the announcer reads an elimination, say, "Any lover who has gone into a flower shop on Val
Nuns Looking Anxious, Listening to Radios is a work in the hazard of retrieval. What sticks in retrospect? Seldom what you would expect, not always the happiness. Otherwise you could train for life, y
Poetry. Erebus, the dark and shadowy outer realm of the Underworld in Greek mythology, becomes a place of transition and becoming in Julia McCarthy's RETURN FROM EREBUS. The poems articulate this dark
A poet of osmosis explores the implicit relationship between matter and spirit, the interconnectedness of the universe.In his first full-length collection since 1998's Parish of the Physic Moon, Don D
The essence, the quintessence, of lyric poetry.Sue Sinclair is the director inheritor of the great early 20th Century German poet, Rilke: she possesses intense lyrical vision, steeped in wonder at the
Poetry. With crisp, elegant language, sharp wit and resonant images, Julie Bruck's new book gentles the largesse of life out of its many smallnesses. The way a straw buoys up in a can of pop, or a fri
Winner of the 2003 Griffin Poetry Prize and of the 2003 CAA Jack Chalmers Poetry Award and Globe 100 book for 2003In Margaret Avisons new poems, little pleasures are bound up with larger ones. Her sli
A hockey saga, wrapping the game?s story in the "intense, moody, contradictory&3quot; character of Terry Sawchuk, one of its greatest goalies.Denied the leap and dash up the ice,what goalies know
My great- grandmother slept in a boxcar on the night before she made the crossing. The steel ended in Sangudo then, there was no trestle on the Pembina, no siding on the other side. They crossed by fe