Poetry by Women
In Faceless, Genni Gun explores "the impulse for the edge," a magnetic field between the gloss of the topside world and the grit of the world beneath. The countless faces that Gunn confronts on the streets of the city or behind closed doors make her important new book such a compelling readâ??as does the "delicious anxiety" she sees hanging in ecstatic, sometimes terrifying suspense in the liminal spaces between. >>
In Heron Cliff, the heart moves house and finds a home once more in the world. This collection includes poems about the giving up of a beloved home where a son had taken his own life, poems about Button's own childhood, and poems about the larger upheavals and passions of the world. She articulates a vision of life where the darkest grief has a place alongside the most profound joy. >>
Ignite's unflinchingly honest poems tell the story of a broken relationship between a man and a woman, healed by a very physical process of self-discovery which is sparked by the woman's recovery of desire. Speaking a language we understand, yet taking us to deeper levels of understanding, the poems use language sparingly with imagist clarity; individually they startle, and evoke primal recognitions. >>
Hunter's work is startling in its ability to capture both ephemeral beauty, humour and horrifying reality—from a rain-washed day at the lake to a dismissal of a former lover to a murder committed in rush-hour traffic in broad daylight. >>
Poems in this collection range from a tribute to the paintings of the late Alex Coville to found poems gleaned from how-to-books and anthologies and culminate in a moving eulogy for an upstairs neighbour. >>
In Once Houses Could Fly, ten kayakers snail along the rugged fjords of Ellesmere Island in the High Arctic. These poems speak of the bite and beauty of weather and the limits it sets on us. Beginner’s prowess ends in taking inventory of thumbs and “aging’s howl,” yet the light’s redemptive peace settles all distress, and what lasts is the quiet gratitude that overtakes the narrator, as the journey sets the pace for the soul to catch up with the body.
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Our Extraordinary Monsters is Vanessa Moeller's debut poetry collection which uses language(s) to build a written architecture where meaning(s) reside(s). >>
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