Poetry by Women
A diagnostic eyewitness to the complexities of life, Tablet Fragments explores the natural history of familial and romantic relationships, the impacting of migration and displacement, and composite identities as outsider and insider.
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That Singing You Hear at the Edges
In this collection, the dividing walls of time and place remain intact but approach transparency because of what turns visible—and audible—when we become still enough to hear the singing at the edges. >>
Jennifer Houle's debut poetry collection comes from a place of grappling, an attempt to find meaning, beauty and connection in the day-to-day, without being confined by it. >>
The poems in this collection are the product of long reflection on loss: of a daughter, a sister, parents. Intelligent, vivid and carefully crafted, they honour the dead, yet avoid easy answers. >>
A girl who wants to decode the world searches for the patterns and codes in everything, trying to decipher music, travel, family, love, loss. Through first waltzes, first sailing trips and first tattoos, the young woman tries to understand the universe, and herself. >>
This book is about the relationship between body and word, body’s longing for word, word’s longing to be embodied. It is about being in relationship with another person, self and other. Experience, like rain, falls through a tree’s canopy.
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The Time Between is a series of conversations with a contemplative heft, only in this case infected and inflected by operation-manual speech and military-industrial-complex mores and malaise—as if the other had been forced to contemplate violence in a real way, had been forced out into the crowded world, forced to let in multiple and troubled points of view. >>
This Side of Light: Selected Poems (1995-2020)
Selected and introduced by Governor General award-winning poet Arleen Pare, This Side of Light celebrates the evolution and scope of Souaid's work over a 25-year period. >>
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