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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780973801033Author Stephen D'AmicoFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Ameek PressPublisher Ameek PressWeight(grams) 485g

Karen Solie won the Canadian Griffin Prize with only her third collection, Pigeon, in 2010, and has quickly established herself as one of the most distinctive and unsettling voices in Canadian poetry, a 'sublime singer of existential bewilderment'. Her...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780771073137Author Lorna CrozierFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint McClelland & Stewart Inc.Publisher McClelland & Stewart Inc.

Recite your poem to your aunt. I threw myself to the ground. Where were you in the night? In a school among the pines. What was the meaning of the dream? Organs, hormones, toxins, lesions: what is a body? In 3 Summers, Lisa Robertson takes up her...

Published in 1994, Crystallography was a gem of a book, an instant hit that was nominated for the Gerald Lampert Award. It has been unavailable for an ice age, and Coach House Books is proud to bring it back. 'Crystallography' means the study of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781551526799Author Kai Cheng ThomFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Arsenal Pulp PressPublisher Arsenal Pulp Press

Social Justice Poetry Spoken-word poet Valerie Mason-John unsettles readers with potent images of ongoing trauma from slavery and colonization. Her narratives range from the beginnings of the African Diaspora to the story of a stowaway on the Windrush,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781990420092Author Kaleel JohnFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Labworks Publishing Inc.Publisher Labworks Publishing Inc.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsJoint winner of One of the 10 best books of Canadian poetry of 2017 (CBC Books) 2017 (Canada). Short-listed for Indigenous Voices Award for Most Significant Work of Poetry...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374536169Author Karen SolieFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780889713086Author Rita WongFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Nightwood EditionsPublisher Nightwood EditionsWeight(grams) 128g

This poignant debut by Gavin Bradley explores the emotional toll of different kinds of separation: from a partner, a previously held sense of self, or a home and the people left behind. The main narrative describes the deterioration of a long-term...

Much-loved, cantankerous, and brilliant, Al Purdy galloped across the Canadian literary landscape for decades, grandly embodying the self-taught and hard-living image of the 1960s and '70s poet. The More Easily Kept Illusions: The Poetry of Al Purdy is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780889714526Author Dallas HuntFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Nightwood EditionsPublisher Nightwood Editions

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781772016086Author Tiziana La MeliaFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Talon Books,CanadaPublisher Talon Books,CanadaWeight(grams) 184g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781935904083Author C.R. AveryFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint Write Bloody PublishingPublisher Write Bloody PublishingWeight(grams) 140gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781772016048Author Leanne DunicFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Talon Books,CanadaPublisher Talon Books,CanadaWeight(grams) 184g

Book, or laboratory? Reader, or specimen? Wide slumber for lepidopterists is a poetic fantasia, a disorienting yet compelling dreamscape of butterflies and caterpillars and killing jars, where the waking mind's prose transforms into the sleeper's poetry...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781772142181Author Matthew FirthFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Anvil PressPublisher Anvil Press

“What interests me in poetry is the interplay of language, the page, and silence. Heaven falls out of words because possibility is in the page, another kind of heaven; I wonder if that’s the only heaven we are given to know in life.” -- Edward Dickinson...

“ If I can impart one final message, beyond the usual declarative to read poetry and buy poetry books,” writes Evan Jones in his introduction to The Civilizing Discourse, “ it is to listen to poets. The real ones offer wisdom and a perspective at odds...

Molecular Cathedral is the first ever selection of the extraordinary poems of John Lent, renowned Okanagen-based writing instructor and poet.Lent’s work is restlessly experimental and yet always approachable especially as it remains dedicated to seeking...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781998779239Author Sue SorensenFormat PaperbackPage Count 148Imprint At Bay PressPublisher At Bay Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781772016123Author Dina Del BucchiaFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Talon Books,CanadaPublisher Talon Books,CanadaWeight(grams) 184g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781772012255Author Dina Del BucchiaFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Talon Books,CanadaPublisher Talon Books,CanadaWeight(grams) 205g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781770417700Author Jamie SharpeFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint ECW Press,CanadaPublisher ECW Press,Canada

Chomping / champing / championing / churlish / … / There’s a wolf at the door / that looks exactly like meWho is the “whiny baby” in this book? Rather than calling names or hurling insults, the candid poems in this collection most often implicate the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781990776533Author Russell ThorntonFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Harbour PublishingPublisher Harbour Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781896300924Author Nina BerkhoutFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint NeWest PressPublisher NeWest PressWeight(grams) 136g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize 2019 (Canada).Book InformationISBN 9781772012118Author Fred WahFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Talon...

Jay Ritchie's work has appeared in Everyday Genius, Spork, Powder Keg, Vallum, Matrix, Joyland Poetry, Glittermob, carte blanche, Shabby Doll House, The Puritan, Bad Nudes, Cosmonaut's Avenue, and on CBC Radio. Ritchie was shortlisted for the LitPop...

Common Place explores the stories of shifting, resilient bodies and landscapes bound by systems of capital and power. From thin threads of text messages across borders to encounters with strangers in the crush of rush-hour transit, Sarah Pinder names our...

In 1934, Gertrude Stein asked "What is poetry and if you know what poetry is what is prose." Throaty Wipes answers this question and many more! How does broadband work? Does "chuffed" mean pleased or displeased? What if the...

A lyrical wilderness of power, wealth, leisure and desire, the poems of Country Club freewheel across state lines with panache and flagrant feeling. In this bold debut from Andy McGuire, all passions -- even unpleasant ones -- stare down the barrel of a...

"White Piano holds an acute sense of what poetry is, its danger...Brossard knows well that 'life is only good for living' and that living is incarnated in the material of language, that sounds, those carriers of sense, can propel it in front of the...

Shortlisted for the Trillium Book Award for Poetry (2013) Shortlisted for the Gerard Lampert Award (2013) Inspired largely by the poet's experiences as a young man working in the Saskatchewan oilfields, Mathew Henderson's The Lease explores masculinity...

Rhodes has published five books, a number of chapbooks, been featured in multiple anthologies and collections and has written over fifty book reviews for outlets across Canada. Thus, some press can be expected for the book. Issues around treatment of...

Mission Creep began as reworkings of the CIA's Human Resources Exploitation Training Manual. Attempts to torture the text itself-obeying literary constraints, employing audio editing tools, and displacing it with other voices, including Hannah Arendt's...

Deliciously wicked satires about local and international celebrities, the poems in Portable Altamont evince an irrepressible grasp of the zeitgeist, its machinations and manipulations, its possibilities and puerility. Who other than artist and raconteur...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781551520889Author Billeh NickersonFormat PaperbackPage Count 93Imprint Arsenal Pulp PressPublisher Arsenal Pulp Press