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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780889712157Author Diane GuichonFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Nightwood EditionsPublisher Nightwood EditionsWeight(grams) 138g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780889713543Author Sarah de LeeuwFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Nightwood EditionsPublisher Nightwood EditionsWeight(grams) 200g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780889713338Author Spencer GordonFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Nightwood EditionsPublisher Nightwood EditionsWeight(grams) 138g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780889713260Author Michael V SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Nightwood EditionsPublisher Nightwood EditionsWeight(grams) 130g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780920110997Author Joan FinniganFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint Fiddlehead Poetry BooksPublisher Fiddlehead Poetry BooksWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780920110898Author Theodore ColsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 69Imprint Fiddlehead Poetry BooksPublisher Fiddlehead Poetry BooksWeight(grams) 108g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780889712232Author Matt RaderFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Nightwood EditionsPublisher Nightwood EditionsWeight(grams) 100g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780889713246Author Owain NicholsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Nightwood EditionsPublisher Nightwood EditionsWeight(grams) 140g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780889713185Author Michael JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Nightwood EditionsPublisher Nightwood EditionsWeight(grams) 112g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780889713253Author Tim BowlingFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Nightwood EditionsPublisher Nightwood EditionsWeight(grams) 108g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780889712126Author Elizabeth BachinskyFormat PaperbackPage Count 78Imprint Nightwood EditionsPublisher Nightwood EditionsWeight(grams) 110g

A beautiful conjunction of the late Douglas Clark's minimalist poetry and photography, this book transforms the mundane detritus of our collective past into a series of contemporary illuminations. Articles of Faith are found, given, fought for, hoarded...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780889712614Author Carleton WilsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 78Imprint Nightwood EditionsPublisher Nightwood EditionsWeight(grams) 80g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780889712607Author Nick ThranFormat 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 9780889712591Author Tim BowlingFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Nightwood EditionsPublisher Nightwood EditionsWeight(grams) 150g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780889712584Author Kevin McNeillyFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Nightwood EditionsPublisher Nightwood EditionsWeight(grams) 148g

Allison LaSorda's Stray shows the formation of a considerable poetic talent. These poems are sun-bleached, at once gritty, raw, and playful. LaSorda can conjure childhood memories of beaches and ice cream, ponder the elemental force of the ocean, and...

Winner, 2018 League of Canadian Poets Gerald Lampert Memorial AwardLonglisted, 2018 League of Canadian Poets Pat Lowther Memorial AwardOtolith - the ear stone - is a series of bones that help us to orient ourselves in space. In Otolith, Emily Nilsen...

Love is a boxcar going off the rails. For anyone who has experienced the highs and lows of love and wants to know they are not alone.Patricia Young's new collection confirms her status as one of Canada's great and most versatile contemporary poets. In...

Winner, New Brunswick Book Award for PoetryA Quill & Quire Best Book of the YearLike the novella in fiction, the long poem is an oft-neglected form. Too long for publication in most literary journals and anthologies, too short to merit book-length...

Is this life a route or a destination? Alyda Faber's assured debut examines the ties that bind us to one another and to the Earth we inhabit, and asks the question, What is left of us when we are gone? In the quiet and unsettling poems of Dust or Fire,...

At one moment, a pure abstraction; at the next, an incontrovertible presence of hooves, antlers, and fur. The beating heart of this assured debut by Richard Kelly Kemick is the Porcupine caribou herd of the western Arctic.In Caribou Run, Richard Kelly...

In his second collection of poems, Jeff Latosik looks to those provisional moments of arrival and anchoring in what Canadian poet Don Coles has called "the catastrophe of time." Safely Home Pacific Western is a combination of words common to...

Winner, 2017 ReLit AwardKatherine Leyton's fresh and vibrant debut collection takes on the sexual politics of the twenty-first century, boldly holding up a mirror to the male gaze and interrogating the nature of images and illusions. Confronting the...

Shortlisted, Archibald Lampman Award. In this lush collection of linguistic concatenations, Peter Richardson lines up the quotidian and the metaphysical, the personal and the fictional, and assigns equal standing to their rich complications. Whether his...

John Reibetanz captures the ordinary details of life -- family and friendship, birth and death -- and transforms them into the extraordinary. His seventh book of poetry is a masterful collection, finely crafted with wit, warmth and affection. The...

In Tacoma Narrows, Mitchell Parry reflects on the nature of disasters, both public and private. A reflection on things lost, Parry allows himself to feel deeply, to ask what went wrong and to ruminate tragic moments with humility and romantic sensibility...

Jonas in Frames is [choose one]: A) a series of loosely connected narrative fragments written in poetic prose; B) a maze of postcard stories bursting with literary in-jokes; C) a delicate sequence of prose poems interspersed with narrative interludes; or...

George Sipos is acutely aware that life, in its strangeness and beauty, will always elude whatever he can say about it. Exploring northern British Columbia, the mountains, harsh winters and human isolation, the tension between the humble recognition that...

In Take Us Quietly, Armstrong explores life, sickness, death and the importance of paying attention to the wider world, filtered through her own unique sensibility. Nothing is taken for granted in this new collection. Whether travelling through Spain,...

In this sensuously defiant collection of new poems, the winner of the 2004 Grand Prix du Livre de Montreal expands and deepens a poetic ruse. In his critically acclaimed collections Saracen Island and Companion, David Solway took on the voice of a...

The Stunted Strong is a new edition of the first book published by Fiddlehead Poetry Books, the company that became Goose Lane Editions. Fred Cogswell, its author, was also the company's founder. The Stunted Strong is a sixteen-sonnet chapbook. The first...

Sheree Fitch's best-selling adult poetry collection explores the shadows that never penetrate the sunlit world of her children's books. With over 5,000 copies sold of the first edition, this second edition 10 years later and 13 poems wiser adds depth and...

Winner, American Independent Publishers Poetry PrizeSue Sinclair writes in a lyrical tradition that subverts the stereotype of "Canadian women's" poetry while still playing with some, if not all, of the same poetic vocabulary. The Drunken...

Charmaine Cadeau's intensely imagined poems captivate everyone who experiences them. Delving beneath the gleaming surfaces of satellite dishes, wagon-wheels, rain-barrel planters, and suburban sprawl, she reveals a luminous spirituality. The encroachment...

Atlantic Canada is enjoying a renaissance unknown since the days of Alden Nowlan, Milton Acorn, and John Thompson. Coastlines: The Poetry of Atlantic Canada features work by 60 of the region's finest poets in a volume that will whet appetites for more...

Toronto writer Pamela Mordecai is a well-known voice in poetry of the Caribbean diaspora. She has long been a popular anthologist, a mentor to other writers, a frequent contributor to literary journals, and a vital link between the literary worlds of...

Shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Memorial AwardEmergencies, faith, truancy, and poverty intersect in this wry debut that volunteers a transfusion of the unpredictable for those who yearn to transition beyond a muralized Olive Garden world. Stevie...

The Sun the Wind the Summer Field shows the wit, intellect, and skill with words and rhyme for which Alfred G. Bailey is famous. This collection gathers together a half-century of poems. Some are the works of a young, strong voice applying the poetics of...

High Marsh Road, a finalist for the 1980 Governor General's Award and a beautiful example of bookmaking, is now back in print. High Marsh Road is a signficant step in the century-long artistic tradition of the Tantramar region, begun by Charles G.D...