In A Kind of Perseverance Margaret Avison shares with readers two lectures she gave at the University of Waterloo in 1993 -- `Misunderstanding is Damaging' and `Understanding is Costly'. Thoughtfully
`Most of all, it is Coles's mastery of syntax, sinuous and unpredictable, that brings his poems alive. The trademark hesitations, asides and parentheses that mark his lines derive from speech (a Hemi
This is the sixth volume in The Porcupines Quill's Essential Poets series. The Essential Margaret Avison provides an excellent introduction to this distinguished Canadian poet and the evolution of he
The third in a celebrated Porcupine's Quill series of `Essential Poets' that already includes The Essential George Johnston (2007), and The Essential P. K. Page (2008). Volumes in preparation include
Subtle, varied and elegant, exact in their tuning, traditionally informed yet wholly original, the poems of George Johnston have yet to find the wide readership they deserve. That they flew beneath th
Joseph Grand, the hero of From a Seaside Town, is a travel writer struggling to eke out an existence in an English seaside town. He introduces us to the small circle of relatives and companions who fi
A bedraggled hen is rescued from certain starvation by an old woman. The old woman leads a meagre existence, but willing and generously shares food and water with the hen. The hen, it turns out, is ca
Richard Outram, long celebrated as a poet's poet, has increasingly found an audience among poets and layreaders alike. As much at home with the physical as with the metaphysical, he is by turns bawdy
