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With cameos by jackalopes, Glenn Gould, homemade spaceships, and Carl Linnaeus, these poems are remarkable for their technical agility and their restless inventiveness. There's an elegance here that matches Dodds' impulse to challenge the reader with...

Croak is a frog-and-girl opera in three parts, played out like a YouTube mashup of mid-century cartoons set to a contemporary pop song. It parades, mutilates, and reacquaints Kermit the Frog with Girl 00010111, Michigan J with Aristophanes, and biblical...

Moving through a human landscape that exists both in the past and present, the speaker/speakers in This is the Emergency Present attempt to unearth an understanding about love, romanticism, and connection. Using chemistry and physics, the early works of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780889712638Author Jamella HagenFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Nightwood EditionsPublisher Nightwood EditionsWeight(grams) 108gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

A groundbreaking deconstruction of the classic 1950 film All About Eve, Phoebe 2002 is a collaborative epic poem/essay that zings in and out of scenes and makes a thousand connections within the world of popular culture. Drawing from high and low...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903392928Author Todd SwiftFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Salmon PoetryPublisher Salmon PoetryWeight(grams) 185g

Snow, canoes, frozen ponds, lonely conifers... Dark Woods takes the motifs and landscape of a Canadian childhood and examines their place in a world of smartphones and overflowing inboxes. The result, Sanger's first book in 16 years, is a striking new...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781550654547Author Nyla MatukFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Vehicule PressPublisher Vehicule PressWeight(grams) 128g

As apt to channel the confessionalism of Anne Sexton as the red-in-tooth-and-claw nature poetry of Ted Hughes, Patrick Warner's voice ranges freely from the colloquial to the baroque. By harboring and honoring such fraught tensions, Warner has built a...

"I wanted this to be a narrative. So finally Jean-Luc went all the way: every line in the script a quotation from somewhere else. Every blessed line. Love doesn't die. It's people who die. Love just goes away." -from "NOUVELLE VAGUE / New...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780889712089Author Amanda LamarcheFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint Nightwood EditionsPublisher Nightwood EditionsWeight(grams) 118g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780889713307Author Rodney DeCrooFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Nightwood EditionsPublisher Nightwood EditionsWeight(grams) 108g

Part chronicle, part meditation, this witty and unusual collection of poems deals with the life and professional career of Tommy Burns, the Canadian who became Heavyweight Champion of the world.Book InformationISBN 9780864920584Author Kay BurkmanFormat...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781988732787Author Meredith QuartermainFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint NeWest PressPublisher NeWest PressWeight(grams) 0g

In this inventive collection of poems, McCutcheon engages in sophisticated literary play and deploys the Surrealist practices of juxtaposition. Moving from eroticism to the macabre and from transformative quotation to the individual idiom, Shape Your...

In exploring the topic of health, this collection of poetry tackles a crucial aspect of our lives--but one that is rarely a subject of contemporary art. Playful, satirical, surreal, yet unflinchingly humane, the poems introduce men with wands to patrol...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780771050701Author Aisha Sasha JohnFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint McClelland & Stewart Inc.Publisher McClelland & Stewart Inc.Weight(grams)...

A lively collection populated by historical icons, each poem a story about the potency of imagination, territories, border-crossings of the mind – among them: the madness of a king who wants to be a swan, Michelangelo chiselling a heart that beats into...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780771027390Author Christopher DewdneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint McClelland & Stewart Inc.Publisher McClelland & Stewart Inc.Weight(grams) 88g

This book is a collaborative work of Ted Goodden?s ceramic sculptures and Cornelia Hoogland?s poems. Specifically, they are responding through image and text to the 64 hexagrams contained in the ancient book of wisdom, the I Ching, or Book of Changes...

Canticles is a lyric-styled epic. Clarke's visions of canonical and apocryphal scriptures are black in ink, but lightning in illumination. Testament II issues re-readings, revisions, rewrites of scriptures crucial to the emergent (Anglophone) African...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780771023293Author Lorna CrozierFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint McClelland & Stewart Inc.Publisher McClelland & Stewart Inc.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781773102870Author Dominique Bernier-CormierFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Goose Lane EditionsPublisher Goose Lane EditionsWeight(grams) 1996g

Sonja Ruth Greckol’s Monitoring Station enters a slipstream of space and planetary language, circling time, embodying loss and longing, generating and regenerating in a faltering climate. Orbiting through a mother’s death, a grandbaby’s birth, and a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781772013610Author Nicole Raziya FongFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Talon Books,CanadaPublisher Talon Books,Canada

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781772013887Author Catriona StrangFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Talon Books,CanadaPublisher Talon Books,CanadaWeight(grams) 152g

Passion, obsession, addiction, vision, and despair -- these are just a few of the themes explored by Mitchell Parry in this poignant portrait of Austrian poet Georg Trakl. Born in Saltzburg in the second half of the 19th century, Trakl was severely...

Sparse and elegant poems by the author of Songs and Dances. A subtle rhythmic sense and distaste for redundancies characterise this volume, which will appeal to readers who appreciate lucid effects and metaphorical economy.Book InformationISBN...

Traditions is a collection of poems that combine humour and sensitivity from a feminist perspective.Book InformationISBN 9780864920072Author Heather CadsbyFormat PaperbackPage Count 54Imprint Goose Lane EditionsPublisher Goose Lane EditionsWeight(grams)...

"So what if I left language by the pier. Metaphor's a raft," declares Andrew DuBois as he leads readers through a fractured past and present -- from "slummy memories of streets" to a "a charnelhouse (?) of possible clowns"...

Private Charles Smith had been dead for close to a century when Jonathan Hart discovered the soldier's small diary in the Baldwin Collection at the Toronto Public Library. The diary's first entry was marked 28 June 1915. After some research, Hart...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771832472Author Max LaytonFormat PaperbackPage Count 70Imprint Guernica Editions,CanadaPublisher Guernica Editions,CanadaWeight(grams) 88g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781550179125Author Tom WaymanFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Harbour PublishingPublisher Harbour Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780771005596Author Doyali IslamFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint McClelland & Stewart Inc.Publisher McClelland & Stewart Inc.Weight(grams)...

All I Have Learned Is Where I Have Been, Joe Fiorito’s second collection, establishes him as the preeminent chronicler of people in extremis. Drawing on the precison and unsentimentality that have become hallmarks of his poetry, Fiorito creates...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780889714083Author Ellie SawatzkyFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Nightwood EditionsPublisher Nightwood Editions

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781773102719Author Daniel Scott TysdalFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint Goose Lane EditionsPublisher Goose Lane EditionsWeight(grams) 178g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780889714144Author Maleea AckerFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Nightwood EditionsPublisher Nightwood EditionsDimensions(mm) 203mm * 139mm * 5mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781772126020Author Nancy HolmesFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint University of Alberta PressPublisher University of Alberta PressWeight(grams) 133g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781772013764Author Ivan DruryFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Talon Books,CanadaPublisher Talon Books,CanadaWeight(grams) 152g