Poetry
A poetry collection that humorously delves into the truths of love and lust within Indigenous communities. >>
A Clearing is a meditation of the everyday—both the joys and the losses observed in the natural world as they so closely mirror day-to-day human experience. >>
A Peeled Wand: Selected Poems of Anne Szumigalski
A Peeled Wand is both a distillation and reconfiguration of Anne Szumigalski's life's work, offering a succinct, authoritative overview of the work of one of Canada's most remarkable and original poets. >>
The horizon is a type of boundary phenomenon. This book embraces the horizon literally understood, as the apparent boundary between earth and sky. It also draws on various metaphorical horizons, tracing the limits of human perception, knowledge and experience. >>
This unforgettable debut collection encodes private cruelties, seduction, and the nightmarish reaches of psychic pain in a language so visceral and fresh that Mazakian's readers cannot help but to take note of the arrival of a remarkable new voice. >>
In these poems the old coast of logging and fishing is all but extinct, inhabited by ghosts of men with peaveys in their hands and bulldozers in their eyes, ghosts with the power to inform us, like the rusted logskidder's arch standing by the highway as though it were a dinosaur's hipbones. >>
Andrea MacPherson takes us on a grand tour of Europe, where the vast legacy of human history combines with her own ancestral origins to make a mark on her. MacPherson is a traveller always aware of how her perceptions--and her self--are being shaped. In this book of quiet beauty and careful observation, MacPherson seeks to re-invent the travel poem on her own terms. >>
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