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Claire Harris is one of Canada's most powerful poets. Dipped in Shadow shows her at her strongest: the book's five poems making hard-hitting statements about women and their children. "O what are you thinking my sisters," the book's foreword,...

Heather Browne's first collection is the work of a mature poet in full control of her metier. Her poetry is sensuous, delicate, full of gesture, evocative of dance -- and at the same time sense and compelling.Book InformationISBN 9780864921802Author...

Fables from the Women's Quarters marked Claire Harris's blazing 1984 entry into the literary world, winning a Commonwealth Prize for poetry in its year of publication. A tribute to the women who create the fabric of life, this book contains poems that...

In Temporary Shelter, Travis Lane demonstrates that she is one of Canada's finest and most rigorous poets. Yet, she writes with a subtle, sometimes muted, voice and from a position refreshingly removed from current fashion and ideology. Celebrating the...

Resisting the Anomie is the second book of poetry by Kwame Dawes, whose collection Progeny of Air, won Britain's prestigious Forward Trust Poetry Prize for Best First Book in the fall of 1994. In Resisting the Anomie, Dawes takes as his subject the...

During John Thompson's sadly attenuated lifetime, he completed only two volumes of poetry. At the Edge of the Chopping There Are No Secrets and Stilt Jack (published posthumously), but seldom has such a slim oeuvre supported such a large reputation. When...

Bartlett has put together a collection of poems with a strong narrative line which draws upon experiences as diverse as a bus driver's salute, the dreams of a forty-year-old batboy, a bus ride in Jerusalem, or a performance by Canuck fiddlers in Nagasaki...

This collection makes available for the first time in a single volume the range, substance, and variety of Lochhead's work.Book InformationISBN 9780864920720Author Douglas LochheadFormat HardbackPage Count 130Imprint Goose Lane EditionsPublisher Goose...

Powerful yet serene, this collection is about women, their friendships, loyalties, and pain. But most of all it about physical, mental, and spiritual healing.Book InformationISBN 9780864921635Author Claire HarrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Goose...

A rigourous selection from Candelaria's earlier books in addition to substantial recent work, this volume provides the first single-volume edition drawn from the full range of this highly inventive poet's career.Book InformationISBN 9780864920294Author...

This collection marks a new stage in the long career of this renowned poet. The book consists of two long poems flanking a collection of related short poems. At once austere and rich, this book is a vintage offering from a poet at the height of his...

In his first collection of poetry, this well-known editor, historian, and critic takes memory as his overarching subject. Echoes in Silence explores Keith's memories of England, of his wartime childhood, or words, language, and God, and of Proust, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780889712560Author Shane RhodesFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Nightwood EditionsPublisher Nightwood EditionsWeight(grams) 132g

Benjamin Hertwig's debut collection of poetry, Slow War, is at once an account of contemporary warfare and a personal journey of loss and the search for healing. It stands in the tradition of Wilfred Owen's "Dulce et Decorum Est" and Kevin Powers's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780889713383Author Rebecca PapucaruFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Nightwood EditionsPublisher Nightwood EditionsWeight(grams) 114g

Winner of the inaugural Venture Award (2012)About the AuthorRowyda Amin was born in Newfoundland, Canada to parents of Saudi Arabian and Irish origin. She has lived in Riyadh and London and is now based in Stamford, Connecticut. Rowyda won first prize in...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781897142295Author Ben MurrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Brindle and Glass Publishing, LtdPublisher Brindle and Glass Publishing, LtdWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781897142288Author Bert AlmonFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Brindle and Glass Publishing, LtdPublisher Brindle and Glass Publishing, LtdWeight(grams)...

In the middle of his life, Robert Lowell wrote "Memories of West Street and Lepke," a poem that reflected on Lowell's recurrent manias and included the lines "My manic statement." This is Shane Neilson's manic statement, arching...

Journeys and interrupted journeys are a well established theme in literature. Gustave Von Aschenback's fateful journey back to Venice and his death began with lost luggage. So also with Salvatore Ala's new collection of poems -- his third. Lost luggage...

Bringing together Eric Ormsby's entire poetic oeuvre thus far, including a healthy selection of previously unpublished poems, Time's Covenant is timeless, by one of America's best poets. Essential reading.Book InformationISBN 9781897231203Author Eric...

Written between one January and the next, A Thaw Foretold is a passionate exploration of themes that are as timeless and recurrent as the seasons. In language that is both precisely vivid and particular, embracing both colloquial directness and formal...

The poems of David Hickey's first collection, In the Lights of a Midnight Plow, glitter and startle. His is a writing deftly musical, where every detail and image has been carefully weighed, honed with a knife's edge and poet's ear to fit just so. The...

The richness of memory is a curse and a gift.Twisting and turning against the soul-sicknesses of late-capitalism, Chris Hutchinson's new collection of poems scrolls through myriad moods and aesthetic guises, by turns hallucinatory, despondent, and serene...

In this debut collection of possibilities, everything is a noisemaker.In Tanja Bartel's riveting poetry debut, the bucolic Vancouver suburbs clash with the interpersonal. The reader dips into the lives of individuals whose day-to-day is anything but...

Watch out for those who have, seek, and hold onto power.So drinkAs the fanged stoat from the rabbit's napeAs though from a flagon of river waterShaken with ancestral ashAs if it isn't knowledge you seekBut some osmotic soul-foodTo be filled up with...

In this confessional debut collection, Matthew Walsh meanders through their childhood in rural Nova Scotia, later roaming across the prairies and through the railway cafA (c)s of Alberta to the love letters and graffiti of Vancouver. In this nomadic...

Standing in the granite of his own voice.Remembering your gathering body.Hello, My Forever Ago, don't worry,you won't be reading this much longer.You will have already returnedin a snowcloud, which is suggestively,fashionably, only ever one second old...

First published in 1974, Mourir A Scoudouc emerged out of a period of cultural awakening. Chiasson's poems denounced the narrow limitations of the past and traced the lines of a fresh collective vision. The poems were lyrical, referentially modern, and...

An on-the-scene report of a childhood abroad. A child's vision of real-world events made real (and unreal) by the presence of his father.Memories of snow falling on Quebec City's copper roofs; scientists tracking the location of a sinking submarine near...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781772012552Author Mercedes EngFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Talon Books,CanadaPublisher Talon Books,CanadaWeight(grams) 91gDimensions(mm) 184mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781772012507Author Arleen PareFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint TalonbooksPublisher Talonbooks

A debut poetry collection that draws on the music and culture of flamenco to explore diasporic experience.In Seguiriyas—which derives its title from the flamenco palo (or “song form”) of the same name—Ben Meyerson picks paths through the reverberations...

Has had 12 poems broadcast on The Writers' Almanac with Garrison Keillor since 2005, several with multiple airings Robyn Sarah has published widely in the US, increasingly widely in the UK, and in Canada, with poems appearing in: US: The New Criterion,...

As the sickly boy dreams in bed, the shadows beneath his parlor curtain are stirring, taking shapes inexpressible even in a child's dreams. "Real keeps us silent," argues the taxidermied rabbit to the young air-rifle that shot it dead...

Winner of the 2015 Governor General's Award for Poetry Winner of the 2015 Canadian Jewish Literary Award for Poetry In My Shoes are Killing Me, poet Robyn Sarah reflects on the passing of time, the fleetingness of dreams, and the bittersweet pleasure...

Lyric poetry that is light without being frivolous, for people who are more punk than prog. This is poetry that doesn't try too hard to be important, instead reveling in its utter lack of importance and celebrating man's right to clown around--often his...

The collection, which began as a response to Elmore Leonard's "Ten Rules of Writing," metamorphosed into witty, poetic responses to famous epigraphs and quotations. Built upon the words of others--from Leonardo da Vinci to Neil Gaiman, Margaret...

Dulge, rageous, couth, chalant-we think of prefixes as a few letters that change a word, but what if a word is lost without one? Each prose poem in Whelmed features a word that has been unhinged from its prefix, allowing new meanings-radically...

Nothing slips by Brecken Hancock's deft ear as she seductively plumbs the depths of the evolution of bathing, doppelgangers, the Kraken, and the minutiae of family with all its tragic misgivings. The poems in Broom Broom pervert the rational, safe parts...