Goose Lane Editions
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Title & Subtitle | Contents | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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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 |
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 |
NEW! The Fool |
In tarot, the Fool represents continual beginnings, not being able to see or think past the excitement and potential of a new start. The Fool is also associated with zero — a literal loop. … | Jesse Jones | 96 | 2020 | View |
The Forbidden Purple City |
Finalist, City of Vancouver Book Award 2019 A man returns to Hoi An in his retirement to compose a poem honouring his parents. Two teenagers, ostracized in a private school, forge an unlikely … | Philip Huynh | 264 | 2019 | 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 High-Rise in Fort Fierce |
Finalist, Ottawa Book Award for Fiction 2019 Long-Shortlisted, 2019 Relit Award (Short Story Category) Drugs. Violence. Racism. Despair. The tiny, northern town of Fort Fierce has issues in … | Paul Carlucci | 224 | 2018 | View |
The Iron Bridge |
Shortlisted, Danuta Gleed Literary Award In a bold, brilliant collection of stories, Dora Award-winning playwright Anton Piatigorsky delivers a superbly inspired inquiry into the early lives of … | Anton Piatigorsky | 272 | 2012 | View |
NEW! The Lost Time Accidents |
In this timely and powerful debut, Síle Englert explores what it is to feel othered in a world where everything is connected. Moving through time and memory — from childhood to … | Síle Englert | 97 | 2021 | View |
NEW! The Running TreesStories |
A striking original, deftly humorous collection of stories that considers the quest for truth: how we come to it or alternatively avoid it. A fervently comic debut, The Running Trees leads … | Amber McMillan | 220 | 2021 | 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 … | Gary Geddes | 61 | 2010 | 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 |
To Live and Die in Scoudouc |
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 |
NEW! Touch Anywhere to Begin |
From acclaimed author Mark Anthony Jarman comes Touch Anywhere to Begin, his first book of travel writing since the publication of the critically acclaimed Ireland’s Eye in 2002. In 18 unusual, … | Mark Anthony Jarman | 256 | 2022 | View |
True Concessions |
Winner, Archibald Lampman Poetry Award and Ottawa Book Award These poems chart moments where the beauty of life is glimpsed like a carnival through a crack in a fence. The verse is full of living … | Craig Poile | 76 | 2009 | View |
Twoism |
Part roving eye, part devotion, you wander hotel corridors, entering rooms not quite yours, trying on clothes, blankets, skins. Arguing with the body’s limits and its trickery, you are … | Ali Blythe | 72 | 2015 | View |