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 to take note of the arrival of a remarkable new voice.
	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, like the rusted logskidder’s arch standing by the highway as though it were a dinosaur’s hipbones.
	August Witch Chandra Mayor Chandra Mayor's debut collection of poems takes the reader into realms of problematic desire, revised domesticity and psychoanalytic complexity through texts that span diverse poetic terrain, from the lyric to the narrative-based poem.
	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 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.
	Blue: The Derek Jarman Poems Keith Garebian Keith Garebian splices together an engaging book-length portrait of a filmmaker, visual artist, poet, sexual rebel, and gardener who double-dared the conventions of art, desire, and filmmaking. In this life-affirming, cinematic, at turns randy and elegiac verse-biography, Keith Garebian celebrates Derek Jarman, one of the world's truly unforgettable and rebellious spirits.
	Bowling Pin Fire Andy Quan Andy Quan recounts a series of firsts: first time listening to Joni Mitchell's Blue, first loss of a friend, first dance with a man. Building on earlier explorations of memory, sexuality, and culture that are the signatures of his best work, Bowling Pin Fire transcribes the arc of one man's life.
	Dungenessque Ron Charach 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.
	Elephant Street Ron Charach Elephant Street offers a series of poetic responses to the vulnerability of the human urbanite in the 21st century.
	Faceless Genni Gunn 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 read–as does the "delicious anxiety" she sees hanging in ecstatic, sometimes terrifying suspense in the liminal spaces between.
	Fawn Bones Richard Sommer These poems offer a deep sense of the connections between inner human experience, artistic expression, and the natural world. Sommer's volunteer work as a game warden during poaching season shows in these poems, the result of a poet standing between nature and lawlessness.
	Heron Cliff Margo Button 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.
	Howl Too, Eh? And Other Satires Farkas & Norris Howl Too, Eh? holds up a funhouse mirror to pretension and pomposity, reflecting the absurdity that surrounds us in these confusing and dangerous times. This howl of a book pokes fun at everyone from the Baby Boomers to rabid nationalists and sell-out Canucks.
	Latent Heat    Catherine Hunter 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.
	Made Beautiful by Use Sean Horlor Sean Horlor tackles issues of belief by questioning whether it is possible for anyone to be conscious, compassionate, and ethical in a twenty-first century world. He questions what constitutes faith in a time when too many have stopped believing. Whether it is St. Joan before the walls of Orleans or St. George returning to the world as George W. Bush, here are some of the West's greatest stories retold from a contemporary perspective.
	Moving Day Terence Young With surprising, impressive, yet subtle skill, Terence Young guides us between the dreamy spirit of memory and the quirky arena of home repairs, child-rearing, and marriage. In Moving Day, the world can be both a dear and deceptive place.
	October   Carolyn MarieSouaid October is a collection of poetry set in the quiet Montreal suburb of Saint Lambert, where the clash between the "two solitudes" came to a head in 1970 with the kidnapping and subsequent murder of Pierre Laporte by the FLQ.
	Radio and Other Miracles Terrance Cox In this book, the miracle of radio opens a boy's ears to the music of the world around him. In poems that range in setting from Canada to Africa and the Middle East, Cox tells of "other miracles" as well—sailboats and spaceships, ice-skates and tropical jacaranda, hair-raising escapes from danger, and the eerie harmony of coincidence. Fans will be glad to see Cox's tributes to Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, and other jazz greats collected here.
	Satie's Sad Piano Carolyn Marie Souaid Satie's Sad Piano is a long poem charting the convergent deaths of Pierre Elliott Trudeau, a love affair, and a fetus through the intersecting voices of an unlikely cast of characters.
	Snow Formations Carolyn Marie Souaid Loosely based on the author's own three-year experience in settlements along the Hudson-Ungava coast, Snow Formations takes a realistic look at the modern Inuit world.
	Swimming Among the Ruins   Susan Gillis The submerged foundations of a ruined city, ancient statuary, a drop of water echoing in an empty tomb, heat left on a path walked by generations—these remnants of passage are examined intensely, looking back toward their origins and forward into the possibilities of transformation.
	Swimming into the Light Carolyn Marie Souaid Swimming into the Light charts a woman's struggle, from the frustration and despair over infertility to the uncertainty of international adoption and rescuing a new life from a war-torn country, and finally to the quiet reflections on motherhood.
	That Singing You Hear at the Edges Sue MacLeod 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.
	The Brevity of Red Jill MacLean 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.
	The Cyclops Review edited by Jon Paul Fiorentino A collection of new poetry and prose wich features an eclectic mix of literary writers—from emerging writers to established award-winning poets, fiction writers and playwrights.
	The Grand Hotel of Foreigners Claude Beausoleil Beausoleil invites the reader on a voyage which is as much an interior one as a physical one, making the reader a traveller into his own mysteries as he questions the nature of solitude, wandering, the distance which forms and grows between people, and writing.
	The Octopus and Other Poems Jennica Harper 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.
	The Shadow Sonnets Richard Sommer Sommer extends the sonnet beyond its traditional territory of love between man and woman to embrace the natural world around him and the deteriorating ecology of the planet. The result is a rich weave of past and present, love and pain, language and world.
	Transcona Fragments Jon Paul Fiorentino These poems move from vivid fragments that capture the essence of Transcona—a suburban community stitched to the city of Winnipeg—to sensitive, self-referential engagement of the "lyric I"—a voice made up of melancholy, anxiety and pshychotropic experience.
	Vetiver Joël Des Rosiers, translated by Hugh Hazelton Vetiver, a grass originally from the Indies, has overgrown the island of Haiti. The plant in exile becomes a symbol for the emigré in this English translation of Des Rosiers' prize-winning poetry.
	Volta Susan Gillis In Volta, Gillis explores the "turn," facing new directions, considering new angles and changing from one form to another. She also turns fifteen original 16th century sonnets into fifteen new free verse poems by trying to crack them open at their "turn."
	What You Can't Have Michael V. Smith From children who yearn for a knowledge and experience elusive to them, to adolescents who struggle with hidden desires, to adults unprepared for the world built around them, Michael V. Smith lends a quiet grace to his subjects¹ struggles to satisfy their needs.