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Thoughtful and passionate, this imaginative collection of poetry explores the many facets of the aboriginal individual. Through meticulously crafted portraits, lyrics, satires, mythologies, and meditations, these poems discuss issues related to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781774220702Author Khashayar MohammadiFormat PaperbackPage Count 138Imprint Gordon Hill PressPublisher Gordon Hill PressWeight(grams) 2499g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781926743813Author Michael E CasteelsFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Invisible PublishingPublisher Invisible Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781772013658Author Razielle AigenFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Talon Books,CanadaPublisher Talon Books,Canada

Best-selling author Steven Heighton's considerable dramatic lyric powers reach a new sophistication and intensity in the astonishing new collection Patient Frame. The book ranges from the court of the Medicis to the Mai Lai massacre; from love for a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781774390283Author Carol Harvey SteskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint NeWest PressPublisher NeWest PressWeight(grams) 140g

The U.S. incarceration machine imprisons more people than in any other country. Music-Making in U.S. Prisons looks at the role music-making can play in achieving goals of accountability and healing that challenge the widespread assumption that prisons...

Sonosyntactics: Selected and New Poetry of Paul Dutton introduces the reader to over 45 years of Paul Dutton's diverse and inventive poetry, ranging from lyrics, prose poems, and visual work to performance texts and scores. Dutton is a surprising, witty,...

George Sipos hears the frog song at two in the morning and wonders if it is passion that drives it or the loneliness of spring. In another poem, the wet leaves of fall are described in language that cuts two ways: "I work the rake, / you the...

The sixth and, on the surface, most innovative poetry collection from Scotiabank Giller Prize finalist Michael Crummey. Eclectic, unpredictable, and strange, Passengers follows Swedish poet Tomas Transtroemer on an imagined circumnavigation of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780771072345Author Michael PriorFormat 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 9781552453810Author Ben LadouceurFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Coach House BooksPublisher Coach House Books

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771837637Author Matthew TomkinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Guernica Editions,CanadaPublisher Guernica Editions,CanadaWeight(grams) 2g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780889714045Author Matt RaderFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Nightwood EditionsPublisher Nightwood Editions

With a sure voice, Groulx, an Anishnaabee writer, artistically weaves together the experiences of Indigenous peoples in settler Canada with those of the people of Palestine, revealing a shared understanding of colonial pasts and presents.Book...

Social Poesis introduces readers to the work of one of Canada's most exciting and challenging poets. Through selections from across Rachel Zolf's poetic oeuvre, this book foregrounds the philosophical, ethical, and political questions that inform Zolf's...

"Robertson proves hard to explain but easy to enjoy...Dauntlessly and resourcefully intellectual, Robertson can also be playful or blunt...She wields language expertly, even beautifully."--The New York Times What if the cinema of the present were a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Griffin Poetry Prize. Short-listed for Governor General's Literary Award - Poetry 2003.Book InformationISBN 9780771080753Author Anne SimpsonFormat PaperbackPage...

Later Emperors is four poems, each of which approaches Roman history from a very different perspective. It is also four voices, each one concerned with the living and the dead: voices of historians and moralists, voices of great (and not so great)...

A New York Times Notable Book of 2010 Longlisted for the Warwick Writing Prize Verses, essays, confessions, reports, translations, drafts, treatises, laments and utopias, 1995--2007. Collected by Elisa Sampedrin. Lisa Robertson writes poems that mine...

Sara Sutterlin's I Wanted to Be the Knife picks at the bones of modern romance by exploring the disappointments of intimacy and the loneliness of dissolving relationships. Her poems are brutal, funny and full of tender, ugly details that remind us of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780771099410Author Madhur AnandFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint McClelland & Stewart Inc.Publisher McClelland & Stewart Inc.Weight(grams)...

Take a trip through Alberta with some of Canada's finest established and emerging poets as your guides. Writing the Terrain is the first anthology dedicated solely to the poetry of the Alberta landscape and cityscape, by authors who have travelled the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsJoint winner of One of the 10 best books of Canadian poetry of 2017 (CBC Books) 2017 (Canada). Short-listed for Indigenous Voices Award for Most Significant Work of Poetry...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781772012620Author Fred WahFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Talon Books,CanadaPublisher Talon Books,CanadaWeight(grams) 410g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of 2017 Griffin Poetry Prize 2017 (Canada). Short-listed for 2017 ReLit Award for Poetry 2017 (Canada).Book InformationISBN 9780889229778Author Jordan AbelFormat...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781478000204Author Dionne BrandFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Duke University PressPublisher Duke University PressWeight(grams) 295gDimensions(mm)...

Social Justice Poetry Spoken-word poet Valerie Mason-John unsettles readers with potent images of ongoing trauma from slavery and colonization. Her narratives range from the beginnings of the African Diaspora to the story of a stowaway on the Windrush,...

A legend of 19th century French Canadian poetry, Emile Nelligan was only 16 when he fell under the influence of Baudelaire and Rimbaud and began writing taut, confidently surrealistic poems, shot through self-lacerating melancholy. Translating Nelligan's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780771051586Author Tolu OloruntobaFormat 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 9780679779131Author Michael OndaatjeFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 224gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of BC Book Prize: Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize 2014 (Canada). Short-listed for Gerald Lampert Memorial Award 2014 (Canada).Book InformationISBN 9780889227880Author...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374536169Author Karen SolieFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plWeight(grams)...

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...

Current, Climate is an introduction to the environmental and social-justice poetry of Rita Wong. Selections from her poetic oeuvre show how Wong has responded to local and global inequities with outrage, linguistic inventiveness, and sometimes humour...

"The Long Walk carries a lifetime's force of meaning. A deeply beautiful book." Anne Michaels In The Long Walk, Jan Zwicky bears witness to environmental and cultural cataclysm. Both prophetic and acutely personal, these poems extend her previous...

Much-loved, cantankerous, and brilliant, Al Purdy galloped across the Canadian literary landscape for decades, grandly embodying the self-taught and hard-living image of the 1960s and '70s poet. The More Easily Kept Illusions: The Poetry of Al Purdy is...

When Giles Blunt's first crime novel appeared, the Toronto Star said it "immediately raises the bar of Canadian crime fiction." The Globe and Mail calls him "a master storyteller," and fans of Blunt's fiction are familiar with his ability to shape a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307950673Author Anne CarsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 170gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780771043116Author Kaie KelloughFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint McClelland & Stewart Inc.Publisher McClelland & Stewart Inc.