Louis Riel prophesied that a polyglot Métis nation would rise on the prairies five hundred years after his death, and that it would be called by the “joyous name” of the House of Charlemagne. This new
This volume, the third in Tim Lilburn’s decades-long meditation on philosophy and environmental consequences, traces a relationship between mystic traditions and the political world. Struck by the rea
The Names is personal and familial archeology, an extemporal dig giving spectres back to their bodies. With its lines sped up and dazzingly associative, Tim Lilburn's cocktail of obsessions -- confess
From Governor General's Award-winning poet Tim Lilburn comes a new collection of poetry of great scope and ambition. ?Assiniboia is a richly textured imagining of a Western Canada that could have been
One of Canada's most revered poets and essayists, Tim Lilburn has long been a deep thinker on issues of ecology and writing. In Going Home, Lilburn addresses how North Americans relate (often uneasil
A new collection by the winner of the Governor General’s Award for Poetry. Tim Lilburn’s award-winning work has observed the natural world with an intensity of seeing and a reverence that shifts the w
The selected poems in Desire Never Leaves span Tim Lilburn’s career, demonstrating the evolution of a unique and careful thinker as he takes his place among the nation’s premier writers. This edition
Following the convening of Hong Kong International Poetry Nights 2013, The World of Words is a collection of selected works by some of the most internationally acclaimed poets today. The poem of "Newt
