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
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 Magritte, above Paris rooftops, thinking of a newly-extinct spec
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
Poems about commitment and catastrophe,from a voice of intense lyrical skepticism and wonderful tonal mobility. False Spring, Darren Bifford's second collection of poetry, is a book largely concerne
Anxious, twitchy, urgent poems--a collection that's at once sardonic and "chronically wishful." Reckon, Steve McOrmond's first book of poems since his acclaimed 2010 collection The Good News about A
What does it mean to be a man now?The answers in these poems are bold and deeply moving. The poems in Degan Davis's debut collection, What Kind Of Man Are You, move between the title's societal taun
Poems that skitter between life and death, "sleep and hurry," at their heart a kind of tender panic. By turns funny, frank, mysterious, and heartbreaking, Standing in the Flock of Connections, Heathe
A new edition of a hockey saga, wrapping the game's story in the "intense, moody, contradictory" character of Terry Sawchuk, one of its greatest goalies.Denied the leap and dash up the ice, what goali
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
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 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
From acclaimed fiction writer and playwright Kate Cayley--poems that illuminate the deep strangeness of the familiar. In Other Houses, Kate Cayley's second collection of poetry, objects are alive wit
Poems that form an eloquent, searching contemplation of "the warp and weft of being and nonbeing." All the Names Between is Nova Scotia poet Julia McCarthy's meditative and crackling-with-dark-energy
An elegiac and incisive debut that blends poems of social justice with poems of ordinary life. In her first collection, Thin Air of the Knowable, the physical landscapes of Wendy Donawa's life--West
A long poem that limns the incremental mourning of living with a person who has frontotemporal dementia. Selah, from Psalms and Habakkuk -- to praise, to lift up, to weigh in the balances, to pause,
Linked poems that uncover the ache and whimsy of raising children on the autism spectrum. Through public judgments, detouring dreams and unspoken prayers, Tell Them It Was Mozart, Angeline Schellenbe
A beloved poet explores why life is so rich, even at the worst of times.Disturbing the Buddha, Barry Dempster's fifteenth collection, is disarmingly conversational and, like the best conversations, it
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
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
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
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
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
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
