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'Wry, sharp-eyed and uncompromising, The Caiplie Caves is the most ambitious collection yet from an essential poet.' The Telegraph'Karen Solie should be read wherever English is spoken'. - Michael Hofmann, LRB The Canadian Karen Solie is rapidly...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780771004674Author Eva H.D.Format PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint McClelland & Stewart Inc.Publisher McClelland & Stewart Inc.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781772054293Author Kalli DakosFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint DC Canada Education PublishingPublisher DC Canada Education PublishingWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781774440049Author Giana DarlingFormat PaperbackPage Count 278Imprint Giana DarlingPublisher Giana DarlingWeight(grams) 322gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781732800045Author Nicole LyonsFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Indie Blue Publishing LLCPublisher Indie Blue Publishing LLCWeight(grams)...

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593802649Author Margaret AtwoodFormat HardbackPage Count 624Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 924gDimensions(mm) 244mm *...

Based on the rider-waite-smith tarot cards, this book dives into the world of tarot through delicate and illuminating poetry that stirs the soul.Inside this book, you will find 78 poems, one for each card in the Major and Minor Arcana-all a poetic...

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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)...

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.

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...

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 9781551528854Author Jason PurcellFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Arsenal Pulp PressPublisher Arsenal Pulp Press

At once casting aside and reinventing the confessional mode, Liar is a booklength monument to love found, betrayed, renounced, and ultimately accepted as transformative. The white-hot immediacy of detail and scorching emotional honesty of Liar make for a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781897475928Author Chris FaiersFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Hidden Brook PressPublisher Hidden Brook PressWeight(grams) 205gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780771048692Author Canisia LubrinFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint McClelland & Stewart Inc.Publisher McClelland & Stewart Inc.

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916393561Author Tim LilburnFormat PaperbackPage Count 86Imprint Xylem BooksPublisher Xylem BooksWeight(grams) 113gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 148mm * 5mm

Gathered together, the poems of Frank Bidart perform one of the most remarkable transmutations of the body into language in contemporary literature. His pages represent the human voice in all its extreme registers, whether it's that of the child-murderer...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781732054912Author Ullie KowcunFormat PaperbackPage Count 338Imprint Savage Owl PressPublisher Savage Owl PressWeight(grams) 494gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

From Griffin Poetry Prize finalist Susan Musgrave, author of more than thirty-five books, comes Hunger, works selected from Musgrave's last four books with an introduction by Micheline Maylor (The Bad Wife, Little Wildheart) and a humorous and thoughtful...

The first work of 'living poetry' in the world, by the author of the bestselling book Eunoia.Christian Boek in Book 1 of The Xenotext outlined his plan to encode a poem into the genome of a deathless bacterium, thereby writing a text durable enough to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781772016284Author Jeff DerksenFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Talon Books,CanadaPublisher Talon Books,CanadaWeight(grams) 163gDimensions(mm) 228mm *...

inside sadness is glory / if you see it right way round, / find the seam, reverse it to perspectivize, / unwind light, joy's unravelling spoolInspired by mystical traditions, birdwatching, tree planting, ethics, neuropsychology, and quantum physics,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781772016581Author Cecily NicholsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Talon Books,CanadaPublisher Talon Books,CanadaWeight(grams) 319gDimensions(mm)...

Here we stand between one breath / and death asking to be light.What happens when someone we love dies? Orchid Heart Elegies explores the fragmentation of loss.In luminous poems that echo the Duino Elegies, Zoe Landale - like an edgy, modern-day Rilke -...

In her debut poetry collection, Deborah-Anne Tunney delves into the life and work of one of the twentieth century's most influential film directors, Alfred Hitchcock. Just as Hitchcock's work looks unflinchingly at some of the darkest elements of human...

Holmes entered the cabinet / of the respectable reverend / (who was in fact a closet naturalist) / and found so many Victorian things.In the early 2000s flarf poetry emerged as an avant-garde movement that generated disturbing and amusing texts from the...

they come flying out from under your expectations / and once opened it is rain / and thinking a sandbar / always inventing a different script / never where you left itThis dream book of kaleidoscopic, holographic, mutagenic poems is haunted by the loops,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780889714700Author Joelle BarronFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Nightwood EditionsPublisher Harbour Publishing

Angular unconformity: a discordant surface of contact between the deposits of two episodes of sedimentation in which the older, underlying strata have undergone folding, uplift, and erosion before the deposition of the younger sediments, so that the...

My Works, Ye Mighty expands upon the conceptual literature of Christian Boek, particularly his ongoing project, entitled The Xenotext. Based upon work conducted during his tenure as the Writer-in-Residence at Athabasca University, this essay addresses...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781779400383Author Kelly ShepherdFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint University of Regina PressPublisher University of Regina Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780888017833Author Dennis CooleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 140Imprint Turnstone PressPublisher Turnstone PressWeight(grams) 68gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 137mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375702259Author Anne MichaelsFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 246gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 149mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780889712645Author Gillian WigmoreFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Nightwood EditionsPublisher Nightwood EditionsWeight(grams) 199gDimensions(mm) 203mm...

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

Steely, tender, and sensual, Lisa Baird's When Whales Went Back to the Water creates a reverent container for a broken world. These poems are hymns to living in wonder through loss, joy, motherhood's sleepless nights, domestic violence, and isolation...