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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

Shortlisted for the Saskatchewan Book Award (Poetry Book) 2023. Shortlisted for the Saskatchewan Book Award (City of Saskatoon) 2023. Shortlisted for the Derek Walcott Prize for Poetry 2022. Shortlisted for the Pat Lowther Memorial Award 2022. ...

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 9780889713086Author Rita WongFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Nightwood EditionsPublisher Nightwood EditionsWeight(grams) 128g

He has outlived his usefulness. He is stressed, over-produced, and in crisis. He is searching for a role in modern society. So he is turning to Benedict Cumberbatch, green nylon bombers, and Rambo: First Blood Part II. He is turning to GQ, graphic knits,...

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...

“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...

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 9781989689639Author Gerald MooreFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Now or Never Publishing CompanyPublisher Now or Never Publishing CompanyWeight(grams)...

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

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.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

The new collection from Governor General's Literary Award-winning poet and translator Erin Moure is a book about tenderness, and about The Good, in the face of destruction. The Elements is a family book, a thinker's biography in poetry, and a polylingual...

"Ken Babstock is a wonderful and spirited poet, his work is full of musicality, syncopation, wit, and formal acuity, it's all good."-Peter Gizzi "The flavor of this poetry is complex-it will have to be consumed in small amounts like a...

A 2015 ReLit finalist A 2014 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize finalist Shortlisted for the 2015 Pat Lowther Memorial Award 'It offers wit, precision of speech, weird connections, odd juxtapositions, jarring images, & a variety of moods in a swirl of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780889713444Author Laisha RosnauFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Nightwood EditionsPublisher Nightwood Editions

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780889712492Author Rob WingerFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Nightwood EditionsPublisher Nightwood EditionsWeight(grams) 102g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780889226715Author bill bissettFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint TalonbooksPublisher TalonbooksWeight(grams) 297g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780889224506Author Daphne MarlattFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Talon Books,CanadaPublisher Talon Books,CanadaWeight(grams) 185g

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...

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 it This dream book of kaleidoscopic, holographic, mutagenic poems is haunted by the...

inside sadness is glory / if you see it right way round, / find the seam, reverse it to perspectivize, / unwind light, joy's unravelling spool Inspired 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 9781772012385Author Oana AvasilichioaeiFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Talon Books,CanadaPublisher Talon Books,CanadaWeight(grams) 283g