Poetry
A moving journal in verse, Cancer Songs is poet Richard Sommer’s response to his diagnosis and treatment for prostate cancer. Often, these are songs of newly discovered yearning, courage and awe; they are songs of refusal to go under, to surrender to the undertow of the disease. >>
Like a geographic catchment area, this debut collection by Jena Schmitt draws together influences from poetry, prose, biography, art, architecture and history into a perceptive study of the forces that shape our physical and emotional landscapes. >>
Street grids give way to arterial passageways where blood flows and nerve endings fire through bodies that are fearful, mysterious, or libidinous. These are poems of varied anatomies, where death and desire take unexpected directions, and share the same air. >>
We all know what happened to Icarus, but what if there was one who lived to tell the tale? >>
Dungenessque is a compelling study of pride, shame and redemption. In this, his sixth collection, poet and practising psychiatrist Ron Charach cracks and lifts away the outer shell that protects us from each other, and explores those vulnerable areas in which the embattled self resides. >>
In Electric Affinities, everyday household items become points of departure into wonder. While it is Pacey’s particular magic to discover the amazing alchemical properties of everyday objects, in Electric Affinities he also illuminates the poetic “current” that connects them to larger questions of human nature, language and the environment. >>
Elephant Street offers a series of poetic responses to the vulnerability of the human urbanite in the 21st century. >>
In Ellipses, Andrea MacPherson sets out to tell the stories of her grandmothers, reimaging familiar lore to recreate the lives of these two extraordinary women. Ellipses reclaims the often obscured realities of motherhood, illness, and the struggles of these women for independence—in verse. >>
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