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Title & Subtitle | Contents | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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NEW! My Grief, the Sun |
The highly anticipated debut collection from acclaimed poet Sanna Wani. In Sanna Wani’s poems, each verse is ode and elegy. The body is the page, time is a friend, and every voice, a soul. … | Sanna Wani | 112 | 2022 | View |
NEW! Orion Sweeping |
22 Debut Canadian poetry collections to read, CBC 2022 Anne Marie Todkill’s debut recalibrates the anxiety of the present. It gives doubt a hearing, finding resilience in fragility and … | Anne Marie Todkill | 88 | 2022 | View |
NEW! PlenitudePoems |
A non-binary faun wishes their body had a variety of sex organs, interchangeable daily. A prison abolitionist scrutinizes Rothko paintings on the carceral state’s boardroom walls. The … | Daniel Sarah Karasik | 96 | 2022 | View |
NEW! Rank Songbirds |
Leon Rooke’s Rank Songbirds delves into the drama and humour of love and desire, politics and the passing of time, celebrating humanity’s resilience and its inherent frailty. In Rank … | Leon Rooke | 84 | 2022 | View |
Ritual Lights |
On "A Girl Like This Might Have Loved Glenn Gould": "The poem sits up at its greasy-spoon counter and recounts its tale, a kind of cryptic plain-speech, an inverted code, all the … | Joelle Barron | 88 | 2018 | View |
NEW! Selvage |
Selvage is a work of salvaging and selving, of salvaging a self from disparate elements. Fragments from the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, the language of trees talking to one another … | Kate Siklosi | 105 | 2023 | View |
Smaller Hours |
Stately and majestic, yet scuffed with wear and disillusion, the poems of Smaller Hours mount the sky like columns and fora of some archaic ruin. Through these ancient halls, Kevin Shaw tracks … | Kevin Shaw | 80 | 2017 | View |
Soft Power |
Lyrical yet shot through with experimental and political veins, the poems in Soft Power are engaged with both the here-and-now of a world on the brink and the hope of something better, a planet … | Stewart Cole | 88 | 2019 | View |
Stranger |
In Stranger, Nyla Matuk’s provocative, unabashedly sensual voice leads us to revelations about how our lives are increasingly disembodied by social media’s flattened, outward identity … | Nyla Matuk | 90 | 2016 | View |
NEW! Sunny Ways |
- | Ryan Fitzpatrick | 106 | 2023 | View |
The Bones are There |
Zigzagging across the globe, Kate Sutherland’s fourth book is poetry by way of collage: pieced-together excerpts from travellers’ journals, ships’ logs, textbooks and manuals, … | Kate Sutherland | 112 | 2020 | View |
The Glassblowers |
George Sipos hears the frog song at two in the morning and wonders if it is passion that drives it or the loneliness of spring. In another poem, the wet leaves of fall are described in language … | George Sipos | 104 | 2010 | View |
The Knowing Animals |
Shortlisted for the 2020 New Brunswick Book Award/Fiddlehead Poetry Prize Short/Longlisted for the 2021 Relit Award for Poetry Poems that sing, in various notes of female voice, the human being … | Emily Skov-Nielsen | 104 | 2020 | View |
The Suicide’s Son |
“I believe in the power of original sin,” writes James Arthur, “in the wound/ that keeps on wounding.” Set against a backdrop of political turmoil in the United States, … | James Arthur | 89 | 2019 | View |
These are not the potatoes of my youth |
Shortlisted, Trillium Book Award for Poetry and Gerald Lampert Memorial Award In this confessional debut collection, Matthew Walsh meanders through their childhood in rural Nova Scotia, later … | Matthew Walsh | 96 | 2019 | View |
thicket |
Melanie Janisse-Barlow’s second book of poetry, Thicket, is a treatise on risk and the uncertainties of language in the modern world. In poems that gather and collect force page after page, … | Melanie Janisse-Barlow | 104 | 2019 | View |