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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...

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780771005558Author Suzannah ShowlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint McClelland & Stewart Inc.Publisher McClelland & Stewart Inc.

This is not a book of illustrated poetry, but an artist and a poet comparing notes -- communicating by their own method and enjoying the coincidences.Book InformationISBN 9780864920287Author Elspeth BradburyFormat PaperbackPage Count 47Imprint Goose Lane...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780920110980Author George WoodcockFormat PaperbackPage Count 70Imprint Fiddlehead Poetry BooksPublisher Fiddlehead Poetry BooksWeight(grams) 106g

In his first book of poetry, Robertson's singular touch is punchy movement and clean musicality. Poems about getting old and not liking it. About getting high on Christmas Eve. About a hole in the sky where Toronto's landmark Honest Ed's used to be...

Providing a rare and creative sense of authority's various faces, this collection of poems travels from intellectual and artistic power to philosophical, military, and imperial power; and above all, personal influence. The verse introduces the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781550655377Author William VallieresFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Signal EditionsPublisher Signal Editions

Halifax's former Poet Laureate Afua Cooper and photographer Wilfried Raussert collaborate in this book of poems and photographs focused on everyday Black experiences. The result is a jambalaya - a dialogue between image and text. Cooper translates...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for League of Canadian Poets Pat Lowther Memorial Award 2008.Book InformationISBN 9780771080913Author Anne SimpsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780771054075Author Jacob McArthur MooneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint McClelland & Stewart Inc.Publisher McClelland & Stewart Inc.Weight(grams) 198g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780771004476Author Aaron BoothbyFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint McClelland & Stewart Inc.Publisher McClelland & Stewart Inc.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780771051975Author Laurie D. GrahamFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint 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 9780920110843Author Bernell MacDonaldFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Fiddlehead Poetry BooksPublisher Fiddlehead Poetry BooksWeight(grams) 64g

The idea of being a customer or observing customers forms the basis of these poems which range from a child's perspective to descriptions of daily life.Book InformationISBN 9780864920362Author Yvonne TrainerFormat PaperbackPage Count 53Imprint Goose Lane...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780771036873Author Laurie D. GrahamFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint McClelland & Stewart Inc.Publisher McClelland & Stewart Inc.Weight(grams)...

How can we know who we are when we can never step away from ourselves? Villa Negativa posits that we can only know what we are not and explores that conundrum against the backdrop of a sibling's illness and death, an eating disorder and a couple of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781550962284Author Raymond KnisterFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Exile EditionsPublisher Exile Editions

Illustrating solitude, memory, and the consolations of art, this new volume of poetry explores a variety of concepts-such as the pull of the natural world, the loss of a beloved parent, an inherited family garden, and the claims of the imagination. From...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781773860688Author Jordan ScottFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Caitlin PressPublisher Caitlin PressWeight(grams) 186g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781773102252Author Kim TrainorFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Goose Lane EditionsPublisher Goose Lane EditionsWeight(grams) 1896g

Edward Taylor Fletcher was a nineteenth-century literary figure almost completely forgotten by history. Poet, travel writer, essayist, surveyor, philologist, and translator, Fletcher shared many characteristics with the great literary figures of the time...

Winner, New Brunswick Book Award (Poetry)Finalist, J.M. Abraham Atlantic Poetry AwardLeaving a drawer open in hereis like leaving your fly undone is like letting a scab hang off a healing wound.In Myself A Paperclip, Finlay sketches the internal self and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781773102528Author Megan Fennya JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Goose Lane EditionsPublisher Goose Lane EditionsWeight(grams) 140g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781772013917Author bill bissettFormat PaperbackPage Count 290Imprint Talon Books,CanadaPublisher Talon Books,CanadaWeight(grams) 152g

Karenin Sings the Blues is a meditation sparked by the actors in Tolstoy's 19th-century masterpiece, Anna Karenina. Entering this famous saga of derailed love, McCartney explores the repercussions and unintended consequences of Anna and Vronsky's passion...

To play "cutting the devil's throat", hold a round stone as if you were going to skip it across the water, but throw it straight up into the air. If you do it right, the stone drops into the water without a splash, making only a sound like a...