2010

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The Essential Margaret Avison

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The Essential Margaret Avison showcases the development of one of Canada’s most brilliant and original poets, twice winner of the Governor-General’s Award for Poetry. Margaret … 68 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 … 104 View

The Terracotta Army

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 … 61 View

This Ramshackle Tabernacle

This Ramshackle Tabernacle is a collection of short stories set in and around the fictional villages of St. Lola and St. Olga in northeastern Ontario. Whether reflecting on the broken lives of … 216 View
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Charioteer – Spearman – Guardsman – Minister of War – Lieutenant – Paymaster – Infantryman – Mess Sergeant – Military Historian – Blacksmith … 24 $2.40 Add
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Cliff Jumping

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This reading consists of a short story about members of a Methodist community in northeastern Ontario in the 1930s. 16 $1.60 Add
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Foreward/About Margaret Avison/Bibliography

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ONE Earthlight meantime

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Lilacs – Montford Field – Zodiac – Lunar Eclipse – Speechless – The Astronomers – Sometimes the light – The Glassblowers – Cloud Chamber – … 14 $1.40 Add
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Poems from: Always Now: The Collected Poems (2003), Winter Sun (1960), The Dumbfounding (1966) 27 $2.70 Add
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Spy – Commando – Anarmed Footsoldier – Captain of the Guard – Unit Commander – Quartermaster – Archer – Lookout – Regimental Drummer – … 26 $2.60 Add
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Adrift

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This reading consists of a short story set in rural Ontario about a man mourning the death of his friend in a fishing accident. 16 $1.60 Add
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TWO Metasequoia

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Dawn Redwood – Freighter – L&PS Railway – Sooke Harbour – Parle-moi – Platonic 8 $0.80 Add
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Poems From: sunblue (1978), No Time (1989), Not Yet But Still (1997) 11 $1.10 Add
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Shaver

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This reading consists of a short story set in rural northeastern Ontario. It tells the story of the relationship between a boy and his father and brother. 13 $1.30 Add
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THREE The minor key of the dominant

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Somewhere in the city – Sonata Form – Trotsky – Pro-Life at the Ex – Trap: Mouse, Wood – Fussbad – 12 Gauge – After the Storm – CERN – Sarabande 13 $1.30 Add
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Poems From: Concrete and Wild Carrot (2002), Always Now: The Collected Poems (2005), Momentary Dark (2006), Listening: Last Poems (2009) 11 $1.10 Add