Poetry

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
The Glassblowers Goose Lane Editions	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
NEW! The Invisible World Is in Decline Book IX ECW Press	The stunning conclusion to a 40-year poetic project In the tradition of earlier modernist long poems like Ezra Pound’s Cantos and bp Nichol’s The Martyrology, The Invisible World Is …	Bruce Whiteman	98	2022	View
The Knowing Animals Brick Books	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
NEW! The Most Charming Creatures Poems ECW Press	With uncanny wit, inventive beauty, and numinous surprise, The Most Charming Creatures explores the contemporary and its language, considering our wonder, sorrow, bewilderment, anxiety, and …	Gary Barwin	128	2022	View
The Suicide’s Son Véhicule Press	“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
NEW! The Suspect We Palimpsest Press	In The Suspect We, Roxanna Bennett and Shane Neilson collaborate to make a documentary poetics concerning pandemic conditions for the mad, neurodivergent, and disabled. Written while the world …	Roxanna Bennett; Shane Neilson	256	2023	View
The Terracotta Army Goose Lane Editions	In 1985, Gary Geddes won the Commonwealth Poetry Prize, Americas Region, for The Terracotta Army, a brilliant sequence of his Chinese sonnets. The nine-couplet poems were inspired by his 1981 …	Gary Geddes	61	2010	View
The Unpublished City Volume I: Anthology Book*hug Press	Curated by Dionne Brand, this anthology features the work of 18 emerging Toronto talents:	Dionne Brand	73	2017	View
The Unpublished City Volume II: The Lived City, The Imagined City Book*hug Press	Co-edited by Phoebe Wang, Canisia Lubrin & Dionne Brand Orient yourself in the city with these nineteen works of creative non-fiction that offer a different, more multifarious wayfinding. In …	Canisia Lubrin; Dionne Brand; Phoebe Wang	89	2018	View
These are not the potatoes of my youth Goose Lane Editions	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 Palimpsest Press	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
This Accident of Being Lost Songs and Stories House of Anansi Press	A knife-sharp new collection of stories and songs from award-winning Nishnaabeg storyteller and writer Leanne Betasamosake Simpson that rebirths a decolonized reality, one that circles in and out …	Leanne Betasamosake Simpson	138	2017	View
NEW! Through Disassembled Houses of Perfect Stones At Bay Press	The weight of history lies on the spine of memory. That heft and delicate balance are palpable in these rich poems that echo with grief, longing, and observed beauty. From the silence and …	David Yerex Williamson	128	2022	View
To Live and Die in Scoudouc Goose Lane Editions	First published in 1974, Mourir à Scoudouc emerged out of a period of cultural awakening. Chiasson’s poems denounced the narrow limitations of the past and traced the lines of a fresh …	Herménégilde Chiasson	96	2018	View
Tonguebreaker poems and performance texts Arsenal Pulp Press	In their fourth collection of poetry, Lambda Literary Award-winning poet and writer Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha continues her excavation of working-class queer brown femme survivorhood and …	Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha	142	2019	View
NEW! Trailer Park Shakes Brick Books	These poems, while dreamlike and playful, bear unflinching witness to the workings of injustice — how violence is channeled through institutions and refracted intimately between people, …	Justene Dion-Glowa	99	2022	View