Whether speaking of erotic love, domestic life, spiritual wilderness, or family entanglements, the poems of Auguries, the much-anticipated second collection from Yukon poet Clea Roberts, are saturated
From acclaimed fiction writer and playwright Kate Cayley--poems that illuminate the deep strangeness of the familiar. In Other Houses, Kate Cayley's second collection of poetry, objects are alive wit
Poems that form an eloquent, searching contemplation of "the warp and weft of being and nonbeing." All the Names Between is Nova Scotia poet Julia McCarthy's meditative and crackling-with-dark-energy
An elegiac and incisive debut that blends poems of social justice with poems of ordinary life. In her first collection, Thin Air of the Knowable, the physical landscapes of Wendy Donawa's life--West
A long poem that limns the incremental mourning of living with a person who has frontotemporal dementia. Selah, from Psalms and Habakkuk -- to praise, to lift up, to weigh in the balances, to pause,
A powerful grief book--poems that are not so much elegiac as visionary. Stomata, Genevieve Lehr's second collection, asks that language shoulder loss, that it reach out centrifugally, at full metapho
Linked poems that uncover the ache and whimsy of raising children on the autism spectrum. Through public judgments, detouring dreams and unspoken prayers, Tell Them It Was Mozart, Angeline Schellenbe
A hockey saga, wrapping the game?s story in the "intense, moody, contradictory&3quot; character of Terry Sawchuk, one of its greatest goalies.Denied the leap and dash up the ice,what goalies know
A beloved poet explores why life is so rich, even at the worst of times.Disturbing the Buddha, Barry Dempster's fifteenth collection, is disarmingly conversational and, like the best conversations, it
Lyric poems built with consummate skill by a poet at the peak of her powers.Heaven's Thieves is a collection engaged with the big questions--What are bodies for? What does it mean to be alive? What is
A wide-ranging meditation by an accomplished poet on the uncontainable materiality of the world.From yoghurt tubs to pop-up books to bobcats, from cement trucks to lost socks to the products of concep
Poems that echo Satie's haunting music and refract the ironies of the Parisian Dada movement.A man who might be Erik Satie floats, à la Magritte, above Paris rooftops, thinking of a newly-extinct spec
Instructions: An elimination dance begins with a crowded dance floor. At a signal, the band stops playing and the announcer reads an elimination, say, "Any lover who has gone into a flower shop on Val
The essence, the quintessence, of lyric poetry.Sue Sinclair is the director inheritor of the great early 20th Century German poet, Rilke: she possesses intense lyrical vision, steeped in wonder at the
Poems about commitment and catastrophe,from a voice of intense lyrical skepticism and wonderful tonal mobility. False Spring, Darren Bifford's second collection of poetry, is a book largely concerne
Poems that skitter between life and death, "sleep and hurry," at their heart a kind of tender panic. By turns funny, frank, mysterious, and heartbreaking, Standing in the Flock of Connections, Heathe
Anxious, twitchy, urgent poems--a collection that's at once sardonic and "chronically wishful." Reckon, Steve McOrmond's first book of poems since his acclaimed 2010 collection The Good News about A
A long poem memorializing the art and lives of sculptors Frances Loring and Florence Wyle. Arleen Paré, in her first book-length poem after her Governor General Literary Award-winning Lake of Two Mou
A meditative and piercing collection that explores traumas both ordinary and out of the ordinary. Museum of Kindness, Montreal poet Susan Elmslie's searching second collection of poetry, is a book t
A pitch-perfect debut and a call to act in the service of Earth through radiant attention. Humankind, at present, has breached floodgates that have only been breached before in ancient stories of ang
