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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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781550178159Author Cornelia HooglandFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Harbour PublishingPublisher Harbour PublishingWeight(grams) 131gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780889712973Author andrea bennettFormat 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 9781550178357Author David ZierothFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Harbour PublishingPublisher Harbour PublishingWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 234mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780889226838Author Daniel ZomparelliFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint TalonbooksPublisher TalonbooksWeight(grams) 170g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781550177183Author Rachel RoseFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Harbour PublishingPublisher Harbour PublishingWeight(grams) 136gDimensions(mm) 223mm *...

"My best actions are a parrot's / bright feathers in the dark jungle / trying to catch your eye / with the colour and flight / which says, I am here / and trying to do what's right." Do we make the universe, or does it make us? In Outside, Inside,...

we climb down the manhole / where history waits, and we can read / its layers or at least imagine themFrom a balcony overlooking an urban back lane, a poet watches those walking below - their identities unknown and yet grasped through real and imagined...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780889713017Author Elaine WooFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Nightwood EditionsPublisher Nightwood EditionsWeight(grams) 110g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780889712706Author John BartonFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Nightwood EditionsPublisher Nightwood EditionsWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 226mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780889712034Author Jay MillArFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Nightwood EditionsPublisher Nightwood EditionsWeight(grams) 258gDimensions(mm) 215mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780889712294Author George MurrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 79Imprint Nightwood EditionsPublisher Nightwood EditionsWeight(grams) 199gDimensions(mm) 190mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780889712454Author Jim JohnstoneFormat 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 9780889712157Author Diane GuichonFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint Nightwood EditionsPublisher Nightwood EditionsWeight(grams) 190gDimensions(mm) 203mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780889713185Author Michael JohnsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Nightwood EditionsPublisher Nightwood EditionsWeight(grams) 108gDimensions(mm) 210mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780889225145Author Frank DaveyFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint TalonbooksPublisher TalonbooksWeight(grams) 141gDimensions(mm) 228mm * 152mm * 9mm

Stately and majestic, yet scuffed with wear and disillusion, the poems of Smaller Hours mount the sky like columns and fora of some archaic ruin. Through these ancient halls, Kevin Shaw tracks Eros, clearing away the rubble and polishing the marble,...

Readers and critics who warmed to the fine intelligence of his debut collection will be astonished and delighted to see how much Eric Miller has matured as a poet in the six years since Song of the Vulgar Starling first appeared in 1999. In the...

Fables from the Women's Quarters marked Claire Harris's blazing 1984 entry into the literary world, winning a Commonwealth Prize for poetry in its year of publication. A tribute to the women who create the fabric of life, this book contains poems that...

In the Flight of Stars, Dorothy Roberts's seventh book of poetry and her first in more than a decade, is - in her own words - " a collection of latter-life poems," the mature work of a firm intelligence. No sentimentalist, Roberts unflinchingly confronts...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780889712560Author Shane RhodesFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Nightwood EditionsPublisher Nightwood EditionsWeight(grams) 132g

Blurbs from Joan Retallack, Kevin Killian and CA Conrad A brash and brazen use of misread historical texts to highlight the violence of the treatment of North America's first people Zolf identifies as a LGBTQ writerExtensive galleys and review copy...

Erin Moure traces a woman's poetic trajectory through the instability of any search and any procedure. Everything touched upon is called into question as Moure explores the limits of our notions of language, and plays with the power of words to convey...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781773103235Author Kazim AliFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Goose Lane EditionsPublisher Goose Lane EditionsWeight(grams) 458gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

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,...

Winner of the Trillium Book Award for Poetry (2013) These are high-energy poems, riddled with wit and legerdemain and jolted by the philosophy and science of time. "Time's not the market, it's the bustle; / not the price but worth," he writes, sailing...

Jonathan Ball's fourth poetry book, the first in seven years, swirls chaos and confession together. At the book's heart is a question: Why create art? A series of poetic sequences torment themselves over this question, offering few answers and taking...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780889712355Author Tim BowlingFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Nightwood EditionsPublisher Nightwood EditionsWeight(grams) 90gDimensions(mm) 182mm *...

The word "magyarazni" (pronounced MUG-yar-az-knee) means "to explain" in Hungarian, but translates literally as "make it Hungarian." This faux-Hungarian language primer, written in direct address, invites readers to experience what it's like to be "made...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780889713789Author Jessica MooreFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Nightwood EditionsPublisher Nightwood EditionsDimensions(mm) 203mm * 139mm * 12mm

One of Canada's most distinguished poets, Dionne Brand explores and chronicles how history shapes human existence, in particular the lives of those ruptured and scattered by New World slaveries and modern crises. This republication of three early...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781550965599Author Vladimir AzarovFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Exile EditionsPublisher Exile EditionsWeight(grams) 204g

What started as a small sequence of poems about the Starbucks logo grew to monstrous proportions after the poet fell under a siren spell herself. All Day I Dream About Sirens is both an ancient reverie and a screen-induced stupor as these poems reckon...

The brilliant new collection from Michael Crummey, bestselling author of Galore. Michael Crummey's first collection in a decade has something for everyone: Love and marriage and airport grief; how not to get laid in a Newfoundland...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771316026Author Erin NoteboomFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Brick BooksPublisher Brick BooksWeight(grams) 1937g

Originally published in 1998, Lynn Crosbie brought her unique voice to the forefront of Canadian poetry with this important collection of verse. Hers is a world of Shakespeare, skinheads, and centurions; and hers is a life stripped to the basics and then...