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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781773103051Author Ali BlytheFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Goose Lane EditionsPublisher Goose Lane EditionsWeight(grams) 159g

In this collection, E. Alex Pierce enters the territory of memory embedded in landscape where "language tied to the land" evokes the cadence of tidal rivers and creates a fluid world. She traces the fragmented childhood beginnings that lead to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771835176Author Chad NormanFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Guernica Editions,CanadaPublisher Guernica Editions,CanadaWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771833998Author Catherine BlackFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Guernica Editions,CanadaPublisher Guernica Editions,CanadaWeight(grams) 0g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771833608Author Raymond FilipFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Guernica Editions,CanadaPublisher Guernica Editions,CanadaWeight(grams) 210g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771831895Author Elana WolffFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Guernica Editions,CanadaPublisher Guernica Editions,CanadaWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771611749Author Brandon PittsFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Mosaic PressPublisher Mosaic PressWeight(grams) 136g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781773103044Author James LindsayFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Goose Lane EditionsPublisher Goose Lane EditionsWeight(grams) 186g

In the arena, she shot cigarettes and coins from her trusting husband's hand. Some women wished she would miss. -from "Little Sure Shot" Kat Cameron's poetry illuminates the unsung perspectives of the women of the West, creating a compelling...

Rain Shadow is a collection of poetry that explores the fraught relationship between the natural world and humans yearning to connect with something greater than themselves. The poems range through destabilized lives and landscapes, fathoming presence...

Alice Major observes the comedy and the tragedy of this human-dominated moment on Earth. Major's most persistent question-"Where do we fit in the universe?"-is made more urgent by the ecological calamity of human-driven climate change. Her...

By turns quirky, startling, earthy, and hope-filled, Micheline Maylor's poems slip effortlessly through topics ranging from what we give up as we age to regrets for love that has passed, the interplay between the animal world and human thought, and the...

Lisa Martin's new poetry collection seeks the kind of lyric truth that lives in paradox, in the dwelling together of seeming opposites such as life and death, love and loss, faith and doubt, joy and sorrow. Here readers will find a range of moods, tones,...

"My emptiness will not be frenetic with the friction of my father's silences but still as the unmarked graves of his many forgotten selves" -From "Salt" A cycle of poems, Sleeping in Tall Grass takes an unsparing look at a painful,...

"It's a losing battle: my words have no chance against time. Sometimes, unable to catch up with imagination, I leave the battle, candle in hand, in complete darkness." - from "Trying Again to Stop Time" Jalal Barzanji chronicles the path of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771835107Author Louis DupreFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Guernica Editions,CanadaPublisher Guernica Editions,CanadaWeight(grams) 0g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771834094Author George Elliott ClarkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Guernica Editions,CanadaPublisher Guernica Editions,CanadaWeight(grams) 0g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771831956Author Adele GrafFormat PaperbackPage Count 95Imprint Guernica Editions,CanadaPublisher Guernica Editions,CanadaWeight(grams) 116g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781550655223Author James ArthurFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Vehicule PressPublisher Vehicule PressWeight(grams) 95gDimensions(mm) 191mm * 127mm * 5mm

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

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 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...

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 9780973195637Author G. W. DownFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Manor House Publishing Inc.Publisher Manor House Publishing Inc.Weight(grams) 140g

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...

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...

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