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A 2015 ReLit finalist A 2014 Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize finalist Shortlisted for the 2015 Pat Lowther Memorial Award 'It offers wit, precision of speech, weird connections, odd juxtapositions, jarring images, & a variety of moods in a swirl of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780889713444Author Laisha RosnauFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Nightwood EditionsPublisher Nightwood Editions

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780889712492Author Rob WingerFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Nightwood EditionsPublisher Nightwood EditionsWeight(grams) 104gDimensions(mm) 201mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780889226715Author bill bissettFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint TalonbooksPublisher TalonbooksWeight(grams) 297g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for BC Book Prize: Dorothy Livesay Poetry Prize 2002 (Canada).Book InformationISBN 9780889224506Author Daphne MarlattFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint...

We come / to kneel at the doorway, / to peer into that kind of / dark. To think our way / backwards, listening. Tracing a series of journeys, real and imagined, Kelly Norah Drukker's Small Fires opens with a section of poems set on Inis Mor, a remote,...

From "Anna's Lovers" Our houses glow both from within and on the outside: their night lights and an almost perfect and wintry moon. The phrase "but for now" means among other things "making do," as if we had to settle for the bare minimum. In But for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781550178463Author Howard WhiteFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Harbour PublishingPublisher Harbour PublishingDimensions(mm) 228mm * 152mm * 11mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780889713482Author Jenna Lyn AlbertFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Nightwood EditionsPublisher Harbour Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780889713505Author Chris BaileyFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Nightwood EditionsPublisher Harbour Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781550175868Author Tom WaymanFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Harbour PublishingPublisher Harbour PublishingWeight(grams) 199gDimensions(mm) 228mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsCommended for Governor General's Literary Awards (Poetry) 2015.Book InformationISBN 9780889713031Author Kayla CzagaFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Nightwood...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780889712966Author Rob WingerFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Nightwood EditionsPublisher Nightwood EditionsWeight(grams) 222gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780889712782Author Tim BowlingFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Nightwood EditionsPublisher Harbour PublishingWeight(grams) 371gDimensions(mm) 236mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780889713154Author Sheryda WarrenerFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Nightwood EditionsPublisher Nightwood EditionsWeight(grams) 199gDimensions(mm) 203mm...

This volume of E.J. Pratt's selected poems introduces Pratt's poems to the college and university student, to provide the kind of information needed for an informed reading of the poems. The volume offers a full sampling of Pratt's poems chosen on the...

Some poems can live without souls / but mine remain ghastly fools flicking / uncomfortable narratives like / cigarette butts during class change.One out of every twenty students in the adult education classes Evan J teaches in Sioux Lookout, Ontario,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781897126349Author Meredith QuartermainFormat PaperbackPage Count 107Imprint NeWest PressPublisher NeWest PressWeight(grams) 158g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781896300610Author Stephen ScobieFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint NeWest PressPublisher NeWest PressWeight(grams) 258g

The Toronto Star called him a legendary figure in Canadian writing, and indeed George Fetherling has been prolific in many genres: poetry, history, travel narrative, memoir, and cultural studies. Plans Deranged by Time is a representative selection from...

Softening concrete poetry with humour and tenderness, POP takes an uncommon perspective on modern poetic traditions, combining deft lyricism with visual poems for a playful romp. POP rummages through the stale Cheetos after the love poem: what...

In Vulgar Mechanics, K. B. Thors seeks to invent new strategies for survival through the two most basic tools available to the speaker: language and the body. The work begins in collapse, the poems acting as witness to the death of a mother. The speaker...

What do you get when you cross Lao Tzu and an application for a university teaching gig? What do you get when you give W. G. Sebald and Clarice Lispector the ability to speak from the afterlife? What happens if a girl is stopped at a red light for an...

Robert Brand has given up on real women. Relationships just haven't ever worked out well for him. He has, however, found a (somewhat problematic) solution, a new feminine ideal: the 110-pound sex doll he ordered over the internet. Showing an uncanny...

The heat of summer on an earlobe, a parking meter, the shadow of crabs and pigeons under a cherry tree, an olive, a shoulder blade -- in the poems of Nicole Brossard these concrete, quotidian things move languorously through the senses to find a place...

Modernist poet-painters Mina Loy and Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven had many friends in common (including Djuna Barnes and Marcel Duchamp), yet there is no record that the two ever met. Their non-relationship presents a curious "absent presence"...

Adrift in history and myth, fairy tales and TV, the tedious and the marvellous, you'll find Dislocations in Crystal. These poems move through the world opened by Prince Henry the Navigator's epoch-shifting push to open a sea route around Africa to the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781550963953Author George Elliott ClarkeFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Exile EditionsPublisher Exile EditionsWeight(grams) 132g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781550653120Author Asa BoxerFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Vehicule PressPublisher Vehicule PressWeight(grams) 127gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 8mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780889779532Author M W JaeggleFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint University of Regina PressPublisher University of Regina PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781772012170Author Roy MikiFormat PaperbackPage Count 640Imprint Talon Books,CanadaPublisher Talon Books,CanadaWeight(grams) 1301gDimensions(mm) 228mm *...

The latest collection from Griffin Poetry Prize-winning poet A. F. Moritz.In Sequence, the reader accompanies the poet step after step and breath after breath through a haunting and mercurial world that shimmers like sun on sand. Alternating moments of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Triangle Awards (Lesbian Poetry) 2013.Book InformationISBN 9781550175851Author Rachel RoseFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Harbour PublishingPublisher...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780889713178Author Joe DenhamFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Nightwood EditionsPublisher Nightwood EditionsWeight(grams) 90gDimensions(mm) 198mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780889712812Author Brad CranFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Nightwood EditionsPublisher Harbour PublishingWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 210mm *...

Where does the fragile, robust self reside when 'personal' voice is sent out online into an ironic masquerade ball of alias identity and wanton proxy? What stirs us? Can there be anything authentic about feeling anything anymore? In What Stirs, Margaret...

Garth Martens' debut, Prologue for the Age of Consequence, is about the tar sands and industrial projects of Alberta, and the men who work in them. But to describe it as such restricts the book to its physical concerns, when in fact these are poems of...

In Kapusta, Moure performs silence on the page and aloud, writing "gesture" and "voice" to explore the relation between responsibility and place, body, and memory, sorrow and sonority. Here, poetry flourishes as a book "beyond the book," in a space of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780889712874Author Renee Sarojini SaklikarFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint BlewointmentPublisher BlewointmentWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm) 211mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780889712775Author Jay MillArFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint BlewointmentPublisher BlewointmentWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 137mm * 10mm