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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780889713741Author Yusuf SaadiFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Nightwood EditionsPublisher Nightwood EditionsWeight(grams) 140g

Beginning with an autobiographical account of the mind, Jeffery Donaldson's marvellous new collection moves from personal history to national history, concluding with "Province House," where the ghost of Sir John A. Macdonald has the last word...

Twenty years after the publication of his debut, Little Dogs: New and Selected Poems brings together selections from Michael Crummey's first four books of poetry with a significant offering of new work. In this collection, Crummey emerges not only as the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780771004544Author Britta BadourFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint McClelland & Stewart Inc.Publisher McClelland & Stewart Inc.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781550179811Author Patrick LaneFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Harbour PublishingPublisher Harbour PublishingDimensions(mm) 228mm * 152mm * 6mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781550179675Author Russell ThorntonFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Harbour PublishingPublisher Harbour Publishing

Available for the first time in more than fifteen years, this collection from celebrated poet, novelist, and essayist Nicole Brossard is a provocative investigation of the human body - our physical and spiritual museums of identity and desire.Nicole...

It is not wise to waste the life / Against a stubborn will. / Yet would we die as some have done. / Beating a way for the rising sun wrote Arna Bontemps. In The Day-Breakers, poet Michael Fraser imagines the swords raised and lives lost by the thousands...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780973195606Author Elizabeth GrandboisFormat PaperbackPage Count 127Imprint Manor House Publishing IncPublisher Manor House Publishing IncWeight(grams) 176g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780771007125Author Anne SimpsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint McClelland & Stewart Inc.Publisher McClelland & Stewart Inc.

Reissued for the first time in a handsome A List edition, the Governor General's Literary Award-winning collection from one of Canada's most profoundly inventive and eminent poets, featuring an introduction by award-winning poet Sonnet L'Abbe.The poetry...

What are we thinking at any given moment? What happens to a thought as that moment, on its way to oblivion, collides with its successor? Rambunctious, witty, joyous, and bittersweet, drift is an investigation conducted by a truly unfettered...

There's something fresh and fantastic in Aurian Haller's view of the world. In Song of the Taxidermist, he demonstrates both a fascination and unease with the independence of the body -- its resistance to the self's colonizing imperative. Employing a...

The first full-length collection from well-known Nova Scotian poet Leigh Faulkner.About the AuthorLeigh Faulkner was born in Bass River, Nova Scotia, in 1941. After nineteen years as a teacher and educational administrator in Nova Scotia he is now...

The definitive survey of an essential feminist poet. In June 2019, Nicole Brossard was awarded the Lifetime Recognition Award from the Griffin Poetry Trust. Rarely has a prize been so richly deserved. For five decades she has writing...

Micheline Maylor's The Bad Wife is an intimate, first-hand account of how to ruin a marriage. This is a story of divorce, love, and what should have been, told in a brave and unflinching voice. Pulling the reader into a startling web of sensuality,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781772012651Author Junie DesilFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Talon Books,CanadaPublisher Talon Books,CanadaWeight(grams) 156g

Claire Harris has always been a formidable force and now her celebrated book-length poem is available once again in a new edition. In this dream-collage, which cuts across the boundaries of prose and poetry, she combines post-modernist influences with a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780771073175Author Cassidy McFadzeanFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint McClelland & Stewart Inc.Publisher McClelland & Stewart Inc.

Drawing on Arthurian myth, the Romantic poets, the ill-fated "Great War" efforts of the Newfoundland Regiment, modern parenthood, 16-bit video games, and Major League Baseball, these poems examine the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves,...

Post-glacial is a collection of poems by Robert Kroetsch selected by his former student David Eso. The book features Kroetsch's iconic collection, Completed Field Notes, alongside rare work gathered from different stages of Kroetsch's career. The book...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781783945351Author Archibald LampmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 32Imprint Portable PoetryPublisher Portable PoetryWeight(grams) 59gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

The hands of humans split the atom and reshaped the world. Gradually revealing a sublime nightmare that begins with spontaneous nuclear fission in the protozoic and ends with the omnicide of the human race, The Manhattan Project traces the military,...

Carol Shields, best known for her fiction writing, received both the Pulitzer Prize and the Governor General's Award for Fiction for her novel The Stone Diaries. But she also wrote hundreds of poems over the span of her career.The Collected Poetry of...

Longlisted, Gerald Lampert Memorial AwardOn "A Girl Like This Might Have Loved Glenn Gould":"The poem sits up at its greasy-spoon counter and recounts its tale, a kind of cryptic plain-speech, an inverted code, all the more puzzling for what it plainly...

Impulse said preserve the mess of construction, the unbiblical / carnage. This is my excuse for everything.Intensive and extensive, aboutness convenes across geographies and temporalities, in conversation with interlocutors living and dead, real and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize 2019 (Canada).Book InformationISBN 9781772012118Author Fred WahFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Talon...

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

Elemental, elegant, and passionate poems that claim as their symbol the Ishtar Gate: a threshold between the past and the future, the old world and the new.About the AuthorCABook InformationISBN 9780773528352Author Diana BrebnerFormat PaperbackPage Count...

Evacuations weaves a poetic documentary for readers, capturing the personal and political histories of the Japanese-Canadian internment in British Columbia during World War II.

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In poems of loss and hope, Robin Durnford dares to pause for a moment, finding meaning in the metaphor of the life and work of Irish playwright Samuel Beckett.

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780771013966Author Tola OloruntobaFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint McClelland & Stewart Inc.Publisher McClelland & Stewart Inc.