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Telephone wires, dark as a line in a schoolboy's notebook against the dawn; paint flakes from houses drifting down like dust; the hulking shadow of a desk that emerges, stock-still as a cow, in the moment of waking. Join poet Robert Melancon for a quiet...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781772015539Author Judith CopithorneFormat PaperbackPage Count 305Imprint Talon Books,CanadaPublisher Talon Books,CanadaWeight(grams) 400g

Ways of Seeing meets Mary Ruefle in these visual-art-inflected poems Though they started from Sheryda Warrener's impulse to see herself more clearly, the poems in Test Piece ended up becoming more expansive meditations on seeing and vision. They...

Winner of the Nelson Ball Prize, 2023Shortlisted for the Archibald Lampman AwardMinimalist poetry for maximalist times.Sheets: Typewriter Works extends the minimalist explorations of Cameron Anstee's first collection, Book of Annotations. Prompted by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771833776Author Peter JicklingFormat PaperbackPage Count 75Imprint Guernica Editions,CanadaPublisher Guernica Editions,CanadaWeight(grams) 414g

Bartlett takes his readers on a meditative journey in which he encapsulates the complexity of human experience. Delighting in humour and the play of words, he induces his readers to take a new look at historical events, the natural world, and a full...

The poems in Zachariah Wells' second collection range from childhood to dimly foreseen events in the future; they idle on all three of Canada's coasts, travel the open road, take walks in the city and pause on the banks of country streams and ponds...

Frenetic, fervent and musical, Songs of My Surrenders is the follow up to di Saverio's highly acclaimed epic poem Crito Di Volta. Whether writing about romantic love, filial reverence, friendship, or brotherhood, Di Saverio insists on passionate and...

Love Is A Place But You Cannot Live There is divided into 7 sections. The first 5 sections focalize particular geographical regions: Southern Ontario in "The Southern Ontario Gothic Tour," North York in "The Northern Edge of Everything," New York in...

Durable Goods is a book of a sharply imagined poems about everyday technology. Writing in the Dinggedicht or thing-poem tradition of poets like Rilke, Ponge, and Marianne Moore, James Pollock calls to surprising life everything from microwaves to...

Busted is a book about governance, and a catalogue of possible relations. It explores a litany of genres concerned with allegiance and refusal, and inhabits the array of ways we do or don't jive with self, group and governing relations. It is a polemic,...

Angular unconformity: a discordant surface of contact between the deposits of two episodes of sedimentation in which the older, underlying strata have undergone folding, uplift, and erosion before the deposition of the younger sediments, so that the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781550652086Author Carmine StarninoFormat PaperbackPage Count 260Imprint Vehicule PressPublisher Vehicule PressWeight(grams) 226g

His body, like yours, would lie mute as a plum until a vigilant limb came to a decision. As you might have guessed I've come to one myself. Moving from the absurdity of the First World War to the chaos of today's cities, where men share beds,...

Home is where the heart is, or, in the case of The Sink House, home is what the heart is. Sequestered on a sleepy street in a dry Calgary suburb, our heroine, the House, finds herself embroiled in a stalled love affair with an elusive and alluring...

New Theatre represents a lively foray into spaces geographical and utopian that investigate the process of meaning. Coolly cerebral poems about Vladimir Ilyich Lenin's later life muse on power and identity, while an intimate autobiographical long poem...

Winner of the 2015 Quebec Writers' Federation's A.M. Klein Prize for Poetry If you tore off the tops of canola -- yellow canola flowers -- would you jump in a tub of canola margarine just to make the best of despair? Implored by concerned readers to...

I'm ill-equipped for this. I sit by a fake fireplace that frames a real flame. I've been crossed by two crows today. 'Multi-vectored, Rogers's poems hum with life and tension, their speaker poised as mother, seer, reporter and daughter. They speak of...

Cutting Room both describes and pushes against the anxious hum of the technologically saturated present. Sarah Pinder's poems navigate domestic and "natural" spaces as landscapes charged with possible violence and desire while they scan scenes...

Winner of the 2013 Aqua Books Lansdowne Prize for Poetry (Manitoba Book Awards) If Lisa Robertson were to collide with David Lynch in a dark alley, the result would be a lot like The Politics of Knives. From shattered narratives to surrealistic...

Finalist for the 2012 Governor General's Award for Poetry Melding the deeply personal and the culturally popular, Li'l Bastard is confessional poetry as written by a chronic trickster and a committed liar. Written in part as an homage to John Berryman...

Winner of the 2011 Hamilton Literary Award for Poetry! In this much-anticipated new collection, poet and musician Gary Barwin both continues and extends the alchemical collision of language, imaginative flight and quiet beauty that have made him unique...

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 *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780889223875Author Bill BissettFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Talon Books,CanadaPublisher Talon Books,CanadaWeight(grams) 213g

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)...