Poetry

A Peeled Wand: Selected Poems of Anne Szumigalski

A Peeled Wand: Selected Poems of Anne Szumigalski

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... >>

All the Lifters

All the Lifters

Esther Mazakian

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... >>

Alterations

Alterations

George Payerle

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,... >>

Away

Away

Andrea MacPherson

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... >>

BE

BE

Patria Rivera

The flesh of blood and memory populates the world of BE, a collection of poems that stubbornly seek human identity in an increasingly inhumane world. >>

Blood is Blood

Blood is Blood

Carolyn Marie Souaid and Endre Farkas

Blood is Blood is a collaborative book-length poem for two voices, dealing with the bloodshed in the Middle East, a version of which was commissioned for CBC Radio in 2006. >>

Blood Mother

Blood Mother

Su Croll

How is a woman supposed to express the strange miracle of mothering without falling into hopeless cliché? Blood Mother answers with remarkable originality in poems that never background the... >>

Blue Wherever

Blue Wherever

Barry Dempster

"In the new world, we wake up/to a bone ark bobbing on a blue wherever," Dempster writes in the title poem of this new collection, his twelfth book of poetry. >>