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“I believe in the power of original sin,” writes James Arthur, “in the wound /  that keeps on wounding.” Set against a backdrop of political turmoil in the United States, The Suicide’s Son is about the complicated personal histories that parents inherit,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781550653564Author George EllenbogenFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Vehicule PressPublisher Vehicule PressWeight(grams) 250g

Bruce Meyer's forte is to delve into the interconnectedness of our relationship with the physical and the spiritual. He is a poet channelling the music and suffering of the human experience and, beyond that, the spiral of cultivation and destruction that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780919688742Author Robert AllenFormat PaperbackPage Count 82Imprint DC Books,CanadaPublisher DC Books,CanadaWeight(grams) 126g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780919688537Author Todd SwiftFormat PaperbackPage Count 74Imprint DC Books,CanadaPublisher DC Books,CanadaWeight(grams) 82g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780919688148Author Steve LuxtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 77Imprint DC Books,CanadaPublisher DC Books,CanadaWeight(grams) 80g

In her third collection of poetry, Karen Enns ranges over endings of many kinds: cultural, ecological, and personal. But the poems are also replete with affirmations of love, of music and language, and of our rootedness in place and history. Enns...

would you believe me when i make consorts of alphabet runaways & stayathomes i have rounded up where they wandered all over the page Dennis Cooley masterfully extends the genre of the abecedary to explore his curiosity of the limitlessness of human...

"Most long poems contain lyric occasions. Here is an amazingly sustained lyric that contains traces of other commodities." -Robert Kroetsch Sheila Murphy and Douglas Barbour extend their singular poetic vision of that elusive third I/eye in...

Apostrophe 1. Rhet. A figure of speech, by which a speaker or writer suddenly stops in his discourse, and turns to address pointedly some person or thing, either present or absent; an exclamatory address. (OED) Renowned poet E.D. Blodgett extends his...

This is a daughter's poetic homage to her parents, both elegy and celebration, that explores the transformations wrought by history, biology, and the alchemy of love. In Greek myth, the daughters of Memory were the Muses. Alice Major listens carefully to...

A prodigious body of innovative writing behind him, Robert Kroetsch turns to a starker lyrical mode in Too Bad: Sketches Toward a Self-Portrait. Oscillating between the many moods of a human heart that has lived through so much-from whimsy and scorn...

A lament in light. A breath-taking memorial. Poetry and photography that compose the landscapes of remembrance. Once I saw your breath suspended in the air then I understood how fire could be white when I exhaled my breath followed yours into the sky...

The Hornbooks of Rita K, Robert Kroetsch's first volume of new poetry in more than a decade, is a brilliant collection of mysterious fragments. Where has Rita gone and who is reconstructing her oeuvre? Written with wit and playfulness, Hornbooks is a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780771022326Author Leonard CohenFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint 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 9781897453193Author Jane EamonFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Manor House Publishing IncPublisher Manor House Publishing IncWeight(grams) 144g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781894759229Author Marita DachselFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Caitlin PressPublisher Caitlin PressWeight(grams) 138g

I Sleep in the Arms of Your Eyes is a reflection on love, freely given and loss fully lived. These poems are a contemplation on family life, and on the navigation through attachment, devotion and attempts at connection. They convey in brave simplicity of...

Flesh - a composite of poems perceived, evoked, discovered, moving between and among sensory boundaries as they eschew forward, backward or around exterior life to interior. Here Flesh of person, nature, language, spaces meet separate and become one...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781988824055Author R Stacey LaformeFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint UproutePublisher UprouteWeight(grams) 218g

Bad Habits is a new collection of poems by Fraser Sutherland, a self-described curmudgeon and contrarian, realist and first and foremost — a counterpuncher. Sutherland writes: “Poetry can’t de-feat ongoing ignorance, repetitive wrong-doing, physical...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781542662864Author Bob PreeceFormat PaperbackPage Count 118Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780973195637Author G. W. DownFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Manor House Publishing Inc.Publisher Manor House Publishing Inc.Weight(grams) 140g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780919688018Author Jason CamlotFormat PaperbackPage Count 115Imprint DC Books,CanadaPublisher DC Books,CanadaWeight(grams) 950g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780919688650Author Pierre DesRuisseauxFormat PaperbackPage Count 86Imprint DC Books,CanadaPublisher DC Books,CanadaWeight(grams) 110g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780919688469Author Todd SwiftFormat PaperbackPage Count 91Imprint DC Books,CanadaPublisher DC Books,CanadaWeight(grams) 116g

Here, in the second volume of a series, E.D. Blodgett extends the meditations of Apostrophes: woman at a piano, which won the Governor General's award for poetry in 1996. An astonishing hybrid of Symboliste vision and Elizabethan form, through you I is a...

as if there could be no other memory a tree invisible remembering itself In as if, E.D. Blodgett takes readers on journeys of contemplation in which he re-imagines the lyric form. Each line leaves the reader breathless as it runs into the next to form a...

you can't stop it. everyone's expendable, James. everyone's replaceable. even you. especially you. In a penetrating, violent, sexy, and often hilarious apocalypse, a world-famous superspy meets his demise at the hands of an audacious, painstaking poet...

You are about to read a book like no other. Bloody Jack is a collection about the making and unmaking of story, of poetry and of history. Based loosely on the life of John Krafchenko, a notorious Manitoban outlaw, the poems of Bloody Jack turn fact and...

Governor-General's award-winning poet E.D. Blodgett continues his series of meditations on love, living, and loss. This intelligent collection offers more of Blodgett's lush imagery and deep questioning within the apostrophe form. A lovely offering from...

Like the mole of the title, Patrick Warner's poems accomplish great feats while disguised as pleasingly modest creatures of accident and stealth. But whereas moles mine the soil, Mole mines the rich depths of imagination, empathy, and insight. A...

Ce livre reunit en version originale ainsi qu'en traduction une selection de poemes qui mettent en jeu les notions d'identite et d'alterite au Canada. S'y cotoient des textes d'auteurs des deux principales communautes linguistiques du pays, mais aussi de...

At times apocalyptic and other times passionate and intimate, Eleonore Schonmaier's poems show the beauty of the lived and natural world in both wilderness and urban settings. A woman hides her love letters in beehives, a cherry tree in full blossom is...

"To be able to pry apart: / this is object, this is subject / even though (confusion begins) / he can be both. Difficult then / to stand at the mirror and reflect: / I am this. This is what I am." Some Dance is a meditation on stories, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781987915839Author Marion QuednauFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Caitlin PressPublisher Caitlin PressWeight(grams) 168g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781987915471Author Heidi GrecoFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Caitlin PressPublisher Caitlin PressWeight(grams) 128g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781927575451Author Rob BuddeFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Caitlin PressPublisher Caitlin PressWeight(grams) 128g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781927575444Author Jane ByersFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Caitlin PressPublisher Caitlin PressWeight(grams) 128gDimensions(mm) 202mm * 139mm * 6mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910669204Author Richard W. HalperinFormat PaperbackPage Count 81Imprint Salmon PoetryPublisher Salmon Poetry