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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771835084Author Earl FowlerFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Guernica Editions,CanadaPublisher Guernica Editions,CanadaWeight(grams) 0g

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 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 96Imprint NeWest PressPublisher NeWest PressWeight(grams) 172g

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 introduces the reader to over forty-five years of Paul Dutton's diverse and inventive poetry, ranging from lyrics, prose poems, and visual work to performance texts and scores. Perhaps best known for his acclaimed solo sound performances...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781552453773Author Matthew TierneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Coach House BooksPublisher Coach House BooksWeight(grams) 136g

From Ian Williams, author of Reproduction, winner of the Giller Prize and a June 2020 Indie Next Great Read Frustrated by how tough the issues of our time are to solve - racial inequality, our pernicious depression, the troubled relationships we...

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 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781940996356Author Psy D Christopher WillardFormat PaperbackPage Count 34Imprint Crisis Chronicles PressPublisher Crisis Chronicles PressWeight(grams)...

In Vancouver as the dark winter tapered into springI undertook to singMy life my body these wordsThe men from a perspective.The Men is a work that will be both familiar and fresh to anyone who has read Lisa Robertson. As a poet Robertson has received...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982156124Author Luci ShawFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint Pinyon PublishingPublisher Pinyon PublishingWeight(grams) 163gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

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)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781990420092Author Kaleel JohnFormat PaperbackPage Count 136Imprint Labworks Publishing Inc.Publisher Labworks Publishing Inc.Weight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780771004285Author Lorna CrozierFormat PaperbackPage Count 104Imprint McClelland & Stewart Inc.Publisher McClelland & Stewart Inc.Weight(grams) 136g

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...

In The Wanting Way, the second book in Multiverse-a literary series written and curated by the neurodivergent-Adam Wolfond proves more than willing to "extend the choreography."In fact, his entire thrust is out and toward. Each poem moves out along its...

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...

CBC BOOKS BEST CANADIAN POETRY BOOKS OF 2022LONGLISTED FOR THE RAYMOND SOUSTER AWARDhwaet, another Beowulf translation? Not exactly... Welcome to Denmark's Heorot Hall, where King Hrothgar...

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...

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,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780771057854Author Don McKayFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint McClelland & Stewart Inc.Publisher McClelland & Stewart Inc.

Alden Nowlan (1933-1983) once wrote of a desire to leave behind "one poem, one story / that will tell what it was like / to be alive." In an abundance of memorable poems, he fulfilled this desire with candour and subtlety, emotion, and humour, sympathy...

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.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 9780771099410Author Madhur AnandFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint McClelland & Stewart Inc.Publisher McClelland & Stewart Inc.Weight(grams)...

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)...

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...

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...

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 *...

"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...