Canadian Identity
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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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![]() A Tent, A Lantern, An Empty Bowl |
In poems that could double as paintings, M. Travis Lane harnesses the brush strokes of language to form a bridge between the artist and natural world in A Tent, A Lantern, An Empty Bowl. This is … | M. Travis Lane | 88 | 2019 | View |
![]() Caribou Run |
At one moment, a pure abstraction; at the next, an incontrovertible presence of hooves, antlers, and fur. The beating heart of this assured debut by Richard Kelly Kemick is the Porcupine caribou … | Richard Kelly Kemick | 96 | 2016 | View |
![]() Dust or Fire |
Is this life a route or a destination? Alyda Faber’s assured début examines the ties that bind us to one another and to the Earth we inhabit, and asks the question, What is left of us … | Alyda Faber | 112 | 2016 | View |
![]() NEW! Entre Rive and Shore |
“I used to think this was a book about a disguise, but now I know that it’s a book about translation.” According to Cormier family lore, Pierrot Cormier escaped a British prison … | Dominique Bernier-Cormier | 104 | 2023 | View |
![]() Escape Velocity |
Winner, E.J. Pratt Poetry Award Carmelita McGrath’s Escape Velocity — the long awaited follow-up to her Atlantic Poetry Prize-winning collection To the New World — culls … | Carmelita McGrath | 96 | 2013 | View |
![]() Eyehill |
A remarkable debut collection, Kelly Cooper’s Eyehill provides a multi-hued portrait of a small prairie town. Too small to support a high school or a drugstore, Eyehill is populated by men … | Kelly Cooper | 224 | 2004 | View |
![]() Holy Wild |
In her third collection of poetry, Holy Wild, Gwen Benaway explores the complexities of being an Indigenous trans woman in expansive lyric poems. She holds up the Indigenous trans body as a … | Gwen Benaway | 144 | 2018 | View |
![]() how the gods pour tea |
This new collection by Lynn Davies, her first in eight years, abounds in departures: words and communities die, trout-lilies and passengers vanish, even the King and Queen of Fairies disappear. … | Lynn Davies | 88 | 2013 | View |
![]() My Conversations with Canadians |
On her first book tour at the age of 26, Lee Maracle was asked a question from the audience, one she couldn’t possibly answer at that moment. But she has been thinking about it ever since. … | Lee Maracle | 170 | 2017 | View |
![]() NEW! Quiet Night ThinkPoems & Essays |
“Quiet Night Think is a stunning work.” — Madeleine Thien, author of Do Not Say We Have Nothing “One function of the poet at any time is to discover by his own thought and … | Gillian Sze | 101 | 2022 | View |
![]() NEW! Rump + Flank |
rump + flank explores the body in nature’s many incarnations: human, animal, plant, microbe, even chemical. The result is a fantastical poetic work that sheds light on what … | Carol Harvey Steski | 96 | 2021 | View |
![]() Shared UniverseNew and Selected Poems 1995-2020 |
“An invaluable aid in this time of troubled spirits, muddled truths, and convoluted thinking.” — Mark Mothersbaugh, Devo Paul Vermeersch has reinvented the “new and … | Paul Vermeersch | 244 | 2020 | 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 |
![]() NEW! Something’s Burning |
Following on the heels of her critically acclaimed first collection Hot Town and Other Stories, an examination of relationships within communities continues in this new collection of short … | Janet Trull | 352 | 2022 | View |
![]() NEW! Swollening |
A tender debut poetry collection that examines the queer, sick body as a reaction to an ill world and asks it how to move on toward hope. Jason Purcell’s debut collection of poems rests at … | Jason Purcell | 113 | 2022 | View |
![]() The Drunken, Lovely Bird |
Winner, American Independent Publishers Poetry Prize Sue Sinclair writes in a lyrical tradition that subverts the stereotype of "Canadian women’s" poetry while still playing with … | Sue Sinclair | 92 | 2004 | View |